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continental divide
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the great watershed in the Rockies which divides the rivers flowing west to the Pacific from those flowing east and north; the Great Divide.
See: Great Divide
Quotations
1889
They returned to ascend a second branch and finally reached the continental "divide" on February 25th.
1958
The path lay via the Athabasca, Mackenzie and Liard Rivers to the continental divide. . . .