the watershed of a continent, esp (often caps.) the principal watershed of North America, formed by the Rocky Mountains
Continental Divide in American English
ridge of the Rocky Mountains forming a North American watershed that separates rivers flowing in an easterly direction from those flowing in a westerly direction
Examples of 'continental divide' in a sentence
continental divide
In quarter of an hour the country had grown arid, as if we had crossed a continental divide.
Brierley, David SKORPION'S DEATH
He crossed the Continental Divide, and dropped into the network of arroyos that drain Chaco Mesa.