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Bookmark or Share- Continental Divide | Rocky Mountains, watershed, US-Canada | BritannicaContinental Divide, fairly continuous ridge of north-south–trending mountain summits in western North America which divides the continent’s principal drainage into that flowing eastward (either to Hudson Bay in Canada or, chiefly, to the Mississippi and Rio Grande rivers in the United States) and that flowing westward (into the Pacific Ocean).
- What is the Continental Divide? (with picture) - America ExplainedA continental divide is an imaginary line down a continent that demarcates whether water in the area will flow towards a given body of water (usually an ocean) or another. The most famous continental divide is the north-south Continental Divide of the Americas, sometimes known as the Great Divide or just the Continental Divide.
- Continental Divide - WorldAtlasThe Continental Divide of the Americas, also known as the Great Divide or the Western Continental Divide, is a large mountainous divide that passes through most of the continents of North America and South America, extending from the Bering Strait to the Strait of Magellan.
- Continental Divide of the Americas - WikipediaThe Continental Divide of the Americas (also known as the Great Divide, the Western Divide or simply the Continental Divide; Spanish: Divisoria continental de América, Gran Divisoria) is the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas.
- Continental Divide - National Geographic SocietyA continental divide is a naturally occurring boundary or ridge separating a continent ’s river systems. Each river system feeds into a distinct ocean basin, bay, or sea. Continental divides are broad, continent-wide example of drainage divides, sometimes just called divides. Divides are boundaries that separate drainage basins or watersheds ...
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