The seasonal and height dependencies of the orographic primary and larger-scale secondary gravity waves (GWs) have been studied using the temperature profiles measured by Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER) from 2002 to 2017. At ~40°S and during Southern Hemisphere winter, there is a strong GW peak over the Andes mountains that extend to z ~ 55 km. Using wind and topographic data, we show that orographic GWs break above the peak height of the stratospheric jet. At z ~ 55–65 km, GW breaking and momentum deposition create body forces that generate larger-scale secondary GWs; we show that these latter GWs form a wide peak above 65 km with a westward tilt. At middle latitudes during summer in the respective hemisphere, orographic GW breaking also generates larger-scale secondary GWs that propagate to higher altitudes. Both orographic primary and larger-scale secondary GWs are likely responsible for most of the non-equatorial peaks of the persistent global distribution of GWs in SABER. ©2019. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.