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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.
Apr 23, 2021 · Learn what a continental divide is and how it works as a natural boundary for rivers and oceans. Explore the maps of the Continental Divide of the Americas and the Eastern Continental Divide in North America.
- Diptarka Ghosh
A map from the National Geographic Society that shows the Continental Divide, an invisible line that separates the major watersheds flowing to different oceans. The map is courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey and was created in March 2022.
Continental 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).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Continental Divide of the Americas, also called the Great Divide, and, especially in Alaska, the Pacific-Arctic Divide, separates the watersheds of the Pacific Ocean from those of the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.
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Explore the CDTC interactive map, a tool to visualize and analyze the Continental Divide Trail and its surrounding areas.
Oct 19, 2023 · Learn what a continental divide is and how it works. Find out where the continental divides are located and what rivers they separate.
