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Bookmark or Share- The Continental Divide and How the Rivers Flow - ThoughtCoBy. Matt Rosenberg. Updated on August 11, 2019. Every continent except for Antarctica has a continental divide. Continental divides separate one drainage basin from another. They are used to define the direction that an area's rivers flow and drain into the oceans and seas.
- Continental Divide - Kids | Britannica Kids | Homework HelpThe Continental Divide, also called the Great Divide, is a mountain ridge in western North America. This ridge runs north and south and separates the flow of water on the continent. On the eastern side of the divide all streams flow toward the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean.
- What Is The Great American Continental Divide? - WorldAtlasThe Great Continental Divide of the Americas is the main, largely mountainous, divide that runs through both North and South America, from the Bering Strait through the Rocky Mountains of Canada and the United States. From there, they continue through the Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains of Mexico, through Central America, and into South America.
- Continental Divide | Rocky Mountains, watershed, US-CanadaContinental 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.
- 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.
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