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Noun Concept

Categories: Montane ecology, Water divides

continental divide sea basin continental divides ocean basin Topographical divide

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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watershed

river basin

HAS PART

Great Divide

HAS KIND

Eastern Continental Divide

Laurentian Divide

HAS INSTANCE

European Watershed

Congo-Nile Divide