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. The endpoints where a continental divide meets the coast are not always definit...
fairly continuous ridge of north-south–trending mountain summits in western North America which divides the continent`s principal drainage into that ... [6 related articles]
The elevated area that occurs on a continent that divides continental scale drainage basins.
[n] - the watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges)
noun the watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges extending from Alaska to Mexico)
A major drainage divide separating the drainage to one ocean from another.
a divide separating river systems that flow to opposite sides of a continent. · (caps.) (in North America) the line of summits of the Rocky Mountains, separating streams flowing toward the Gulf of California and the Pacific from those flowing toward the Gulf of Mexico, Hudson Bay, and the Arctic Ocean.