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The 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.
- North Two Ocean Creek
Two Ocean Pass is a mountain pass on North America's...
- Triple Divide
Map showing worldwide drainage basins and triple divides. A...
- Grays Peak
Grays Peak is the tenth-highest summit of the Rocky...
- Parting of The Waters
Parting of the Waters is an unusual hydrologic site at Two...
- Cape Prince of Wales
The current name was approved by a decision of the U.S....
- Continental divide
The Continental Divide of the Americas, also called the...
- Talk:Continental Divide of the Americas
The Continental Divide of the Americas spans the entire...
- Eastern Continental Divide
The Eastern Continental Divide, Eastern Divide or...
- North Two Ocean Creek
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America. The Americas make up most of the land in Earth's Western Hemisphere and comprise the New World. Along with their associated islands, the Americas cover 8% of Earth's total surface area and 28.4% of its land area.
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The continental boundaries are considered to be within the very narrow land connections joining the continents. The remaining boundaries concern the association of islands and archipelagos with specific continents, notably: the delineation between Africa, Asia, and Europe in the Mediterranean Sea; the delineation between Asia and Europe in the ...
North America's major continental divide is the Great Divide, which runs north and south down through Rocky Mountains. The major watersheds draining to the include the Mississippi / Missouri and Rio Grande draining into the Gulf of Mexico (part of the Atlantic Ocean), and the St. Lawrence draining into the Atlantic.
