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continental divide 
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 also: Great Divide
- 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. . . .
- 1889 They returned to ascend a second branch and finally reached the continental "divide" on February 25th.