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The Continental Divide or Great Divide is a ridge of mountains in North America, which separates the watershed area of streams and rivers that flow west into the Pacific Ocean from those that flow east into the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans. The majority of the divide follows the crest of the Rocky Mountains. It begins at Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska and continues into the Yukon Territory and British Columbia in Canada and then heads south through MontanaAlternate meanings: See Montana (disambiguation Montana ( In Detail) (Full size) State nickname: Treasure State Other U. States Capital Helena Largest City Billings Governor Brian Schweitzer Area Total Land Water % water Ranked 4th 381,156 kmē377,295 kmē, WyomingWyoming State nickname: Equality State Other U. States Capital Cheyenne Largest City Cheyenne Governor Dave Freudenthal Area Total Land Water % water Ranked 10th 253,554 kmē 251,706 kmē 1,851 kmē 0. 7% Population Total ( 2000) Density Ranked 50th 493,782, ColoradoThere are also three Colorado Rivers: two in the United States and one in Argentina. Colorado is a state in the western United States. The name of Colorado came from the Spanish word "colorado" which means "reddish color". The name comes from the Colorado, and New MexicoNew Mexico is a state in the southwestern United States and its U. postal abbreviation is NM . The state's two official languages are English and Spanish. Nuevo Mexico was the Spanish name for the territory north and west of the Rio Grande. USS New Mexico in the United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America đ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in. It then continues south into MexicoThis article is about the country Mexico. For other meanings, see Mexico (disambiguation The United Mexican States or Mexico ( Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos or Mexico regarding the use of the variant spelling Mejico see section The name below) is a co and Central AmericaCentral America is the region of North America located between the southern border of Mexico and the northwest border of Colombia, in South America. Some geographers classify Central America as a large isthmus, and in this geographic sense it sometimes in following the crest of the Sierra Madre OccidentalThe Sierra Madre Occidental is a mountain range in western Mexico and the extreme southwest of the United States, extending 1500 km from southeast Arizona (south and east of Tucson) southeast through eastern Sonora, western Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas,.
The southern portion of the border between the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta is defined by the Continental Divide.
There is a portion of the divide that actually splits and goes around a basin in Wyoming, such that the basin (having no natural outlet except as groundwater) is neither in the Atlantic nor Pacific watersheds.
The Continental Divide Trail follows the divide through the U.S. from the Mexican border to the Canadian border.
For other continental divides, see: continental divide.
