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This article is about the Atlantic/Pacific divide of North America. For continental divides in general, see Continental divide. For the movie, see Continental Divide (film)
Continental Divide or
Great Divide is the name given to the
North American portion of the mountainous
ridge which separates the drainage basin that drain into the Pacific Ocean from, 1) those river systems which drain into the
Atlantic Ocean (including those which drain via the
Gulf of Mexico), and 2) along the northernmost reaches of the Divide, those river systems which drain into the Arctic Ocean. A secondary, non-mountainous divide further separates other river systems that drain into the Arctic Ocean (including those which drain via Hudson Bay, James Bay, and
Ungava Bay) from those which drain into the Atlantic Ocean (including those which drain via the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence Seaway).
The divide begins at
Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska. It runs northeast-/eastward across the north of the state into the
Yukon Territory, Canada, where it turns south and travels through
British Columbia (forming part of the B.C.-Alberta boundary), in Canada; then through
Montana (forming part of the Montana-
Idaho boundary), Wyoming,
Colorado, and
New Mexico, in the
United States; then along the crest of the
Sierra Madre Occidental through the Mexico states of Chihuahua,
Durango,
Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Jalisco, Guanajuato,
México and the
Mexico City, Morelos,
Puebla, Oaxaca, and
Chiapas; thence through southern
Guatemala, southwestern
Honduras, western Nicaragua, and western/southwestern
Costa Rica, and southern
Panama.
The physical divide continues (though the name "Great Divide" does not) into South America, where it follows the peaks of the Andes Mountains, traversing western
Colombia, central Ecuador, western and southwestern Peru, and eastern Chile (essentially conforming to the Chile-Bolivia and Chile-
Argentina boundaries), southward to the southern end of
Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.
In North America,
Triple Divide Peak in Glacier National Park (U.S.), in Montana, is the point at which the three principal continental divides in North America converge. From this point, waters flow to the Pacific, the Atlantic and the Arctic Oceans. Another calculation, however, puts a lesser triple divide within the Columbia Icefield in Alberta, by separating
Hudson Bay (thus, the rivers that drain into it) from the Arctic Ocean.
The
Continental Divide Trail follows the divide through the U.S. from the U.S.-Mexico border to the
United States-Canada border.
Exceptions
Many endorheic regions in North America complicate the simple view of east or west, "ocean-bound" water flow.
The Great Basin of the Western US, The Valley of Mexico and
Bolson de Mapimi in Mexico, the Tularosa Basin in New Mexico and Texas, and the Salton Sea are examples of internally draining areas. In these cases, water often drains to low basins, where
sedimentation and evaporation form
salt lake (geography)s,
playas, salt flats, and
alkali flats.
On the
Llano Estacado in Texas and New Mexico, many thousands of seasonal
playa lakes form during wet months, an average of one per square mile. This region is very flat, and water mostly evaporates before draining.
Zuni Salt Lake is one example of a larger, seasonal
maar which does not drain to an ocean. There are a number of seasonal lakes of this sort in North America. In areas of karst topography (such as northern Florida), isolated drainages can also occur.
The
Great Divide Basin in Wyoming has no natural outlet except as groundwater, and hence it lies between the Atlantic and Pacific watersheds, being part of neither. Water from the
North Two Ocean Creek in Wyoming flows into both oceans.
Additionally, although
Panama's isthmus provides clear division between Atlantic and Pacific, the boundaries between the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans in
Baffin Bay are not well defined, rendering the easternmost portion of this divide arbitrary.
Images
Image:Continental Divide in Yellowstone-750px.JPG|The Continental Divide as it passes through Yellowstone National Park (7988 / 2436metre)Image:lovelandPass_CMM.jpg|The Continental Divide as it passes through
Colorado at the Loveland PassImage:Continental_Divide_in_Colorado_-_July_2005.jpg] in July
2005Image:Monarchsign.JPG]Image:Continental Divide CO 2005-10-15.jpg|The Continental Divide viewed from northwest of
Winter Park, Colorado.Image:Nmcontdiv.JPG] in
New Mexico.Image:Continental Divide and I-40.jpg] in
New Mexico.Image:dividemn.jpg] Colorado on
May 29,
2006.Image:Logan Pass-27527.jpg] crosses the Continental Divide in
Glacier National Park (U.S.), Montana.
See also
- List of railroad crossings of the North American continental divide
- Laurentia
- Continental Divide Trail
External links
- A detailed map of watersheds in North America
- A detailed overview of isolated wetlands from the USFWS
- Detailed article, maps, and boundary data from The National Atlas of the United States
- Parting of the Waters: a creek that flows to two oceans
This article is about the Atlantic/Pacific divide of North America. For continental divides in general, see Continental divide. For the movie, see Continental Divide (film)
Continental Divide or
Great Divide is the name given to the North American portion of the mountainous ridge which separates the
drainage basin that drain into the
Pacific Ocean from, 1) those river systems which drain into the
Atlantic Ocean (including those which drain via the
Gulf of Mexico), and 2) along the northernmost reaches of the Divide, those river systems which drain into the
Arctic Ocean. A secondary, non-mountainous divide further separates other river systems that drain into the Arctic Ocean (including those which drain via Hudson Bay, James Bay, and
Ungava Bay) from those which drain into the Atlantic Ocean (including those which drain via the Great Lakes and
Saint Lawrence Seaway).
The divide begins at Cape Prince of Wales in
Alaska. It runs northeast-/eastward across the north of the state into the
Yukon Territory,
Canada, where it turns south and travels through British Columbia (forming part of the B.C.-Alberta boundary), in Canada; then through Montana (forming part of the Montana-Idaho boundary), Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, in the
United States; then along the crest of the Sierra Madre Occidental through the Mexico states of
Chihuahua, Durango,
Zacatecas,
Aguascalientes,
Jalisco,
Guanajuato, México and the
Mexico City, Morelos, Puebla, Oaxaca, and
Chiapas; thence through southern Guatemala, southwestern Honduras, western
Nicaragua, and western/southwestern Costa Rica, and southern
Panama.
The physical divide continues (though the name "Great Divide" does not) into
South America, where it follows the peaks of the
Andes Mountains, traversing western Colombia, central Ecuador, western and southwestern Peru, and eastern
Chile (essentially conforming to the Chile-
Bolivia and Chile-Argentina boundaries), southward to the southern end of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.
In North America,
Triple Divide Peak in
Glacier National Park (U.S.), in Montana, is the point at which the three principal continental divides in North America converge. From this point, waters flow to the Pacific, the Atlantic and the Arctic Oceans. Another calculation, however, puts a lesser triple divide within the Columbia Icefield in
Alberta, by separating Hudson Bay (thus, the rivers that drain into it) from the Arctic Ocean.
The
Continental Divide Trail follows the divide through the U.S. from the U.S.-Mexico border to the United States-Canada border.
Exceptions
Many endorheic regions in North America complicate the simple view of east or west, "ocean-bound" water flow.
The
Great Basin of the Western US, The
Valley of Mexico and
Bolson de Mapimi in Mexico, the Tularosa Basin in New Mexico and Texas, and the
Salton Sea are examples of internally draining areas. In these cases, water often drains to low basins, where
sedimentation and evaporation form
salt lake (geography)s, playas,
salt flats, and
alkali flats.
On the Llano Estacado in Texas and New Mexico, many thousands of seasonal
playa lakes form during wet months, an average of one per square mile. This region is very flat, and water mostly evaporates before draining.
Zuni Salt Lake is one example of a larger, seasonal maar which does not drain to an ocean. There are a number of seasonal lakes of this sort in North America. In areas of karst topography (such as northern
Florida), isolated drainages can also occur.
The Great Divide Basin in Wyoming has no natural outlet except as
groundwater, and hence it lies between the Atlantic and Pacific watersheds, being part of neither. Water from the
North Two Ocean Creek in Wyoming flows into both oceans.
Additionally, although Panama's isthmus provides clear division between Atlantic and Pacific, the boundaries between the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans in Baffin Bay are not well defined, rendering the easternmost portion of this divide arbitrary.
Images
Image:Continental Divide in Yellowstone-750px.JPG|The Continental Divide as it passes through Yellowstone National Park (7988 / 2436
metre)Image:lovelandPass_CMM.jpg|The Continental Divide as it passes through Colorado at the Loveland PassImage:Continental_Divide_in_Colorado_-_July_2005.jpg] in July 2005Image:Monarchsign.JPG]Image:Continental Divide CO 2005-10-15.jpg|The Continental Divide viewed from northwest of Winter Park, Colorado.Image:Nmcontdiv.JPG] in New Mexico.Image:Continental Divide and I-40.jpg] in New Mexico.Image:dividemn.jpg]
Colorado on May 29, 2006.Image:Logan Pass-27527.jpg] crosses the Continental Divide in Glacier National Park (U.S.), Montana.
See also
External links
- A detailed map of watersheds in North America
- A detailed overview of isolated wetlands from the USFWS
- Detailed article, maps, and boundary data from The National Atlas of the United States
- Parting of the Waters: a creek that flows to two oceans
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