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Categories: Water divides, Montane ecology
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continental divide  sea basin  continental divides  ocean basin  Topographical divide
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The watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges extending from Alaska to Mexico) WordNet 3.0
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The watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges extending from Alaska to Mexico) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A continental divide is a drainage divide on a continent such that the drainage basin on one side of the divide feeds into one ocean or sea, and the basin on the other side either feeds into a different ocean or sea, or else is endorheic, not connected to the open sea. Wikipedia
Drainage divide on a continent such that the drainage basin on one side of the divide feeds into one ocean or sea, and the basin on the other side either feeds into a different ocean or sea, or is unconnected. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Drainage divide on a continent Wikidata
Drainage basin of a sea or ocean Wikidata
A line of elevated terrain that divides a watershed or a continent, so that water flowing on either side eventually travel to separate bodies of water. Wiktionary
Elevated terrain dividing a watershed. Wiktionary (translation)
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