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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 is unconnected.

Continental divide may also refer to:

Geography or topology

• Continental Divide of the Americas, which separates Pacific-feeding basins from Atlantic- and Arctic- feeding basins in the Americas
• Continental Divide Trail (also known as the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail), a scenic trail in the United States
• Eastern Continental Divide in the United States that separates the Atlantic Seaboard watershed from the Gulf of Mexico watershed
• For named continental divides by continent, see Continental divide

Places

• Continental Divide, New Mexico, an unincorporated community in New Mexico
• Continental Divide Raceways, a racetrack in Castle Rock, Colorado

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Continental Divide (film), 1981 romantic comedy
• Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos, 2010 philosophy book
• The Continental Divide (album), 2009 album by American rock band War Tapes

See also

• Boundaries between continents (geophysical or geopolitical rather than hydrological boundaries)
• Triple divide, an intersection of two continental divides (or other drainage divides)