NOUN
- the watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges extending from Alaska to Mexico)
How To Use continental divide In A Sentence
- Below the Douglas-fir belt, ponderosa pine is dominant to the west of the continental divide, constituting a xerophytic forest. Middle Rocky Mountain Steppe - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey)
- The creek in the middle photo is Lake Creek, which begins near the Continental Divide and flows downward into Twin Lakes before trickling into the Arkansas River.
- This narrow route carved into the side of the mountains winds its way through Logan's Pass and across the Continental Divide.
- Traveling over great distances, caravans of men, women, and children, amid crowds of dogs, herds of horses, and the clatter of travois, crossed the high, windswept passes punctuating the Continental Divide.
- Once you clear the Continental Divide, about an hour from Golden, the Keystone Ranch is just a few miles downslope.
- So in 1976 I started taking routes that were really climbs on the Continental Divide, and I'd take my skis.
- The continental divide refers to an imaginary line in the North American Rockies that divides the waters flowingsintosthe Atlantic Ocean from those flowingsintosthe Pacific.
- After a long rest in the valley, we climb in hot sun and slushy snow, the Continental Divide looming above us like a distant castle.
- Gold seekers, speculators, freighters, merchants, and stockmen flooded the valleys, gulches, and creeks near the Continental Divide.
- The Continental Divide runs along the length of the Rocky Mountains.
