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Drainage divide, the Glossary

A drainage divide, water divide, ridgeline, watershed, water parting or height of land is elevated terrain that separates neighboring drainage basins.^[1]

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Drainage basins
Drainage divides
Freshwater ecology

Adriatic Sea

The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan Peninsula.

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The Amazon River (Río Amazonas, Rio Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the longest or second-longest river system in the world, a title which is disputed with the Nile. The headwaters of the Apurímac River on Nevado Mismi had been considered for nearly a century the Amazon basin's most distant source until a 2014 study found it to be the headwaters of the Mantaro River on the Cordillera Rumi Cruz in Peru.

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Appalachian Mountains

The Appalachian Mountains, often called the Appalachians, are a mountain range in eastern to northeastern North America.

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Black Sea

The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.

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Canal

Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi).

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Canal des Deux Mers

The Canal des Deux Mers (Canal of the Two Seas) has been used to describe two different but similar things since the 1660s.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.

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Casiquiare canal

The Casiquiare river is a distributary of the upper Orinoco flowing southward into the Rio Negro, in Venezuela, South America.

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Chicago Portage

The Chicago Portage was an ancient portage that connected the Great Lakes waterway system with the Mississippi River system.

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Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal

The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, historically known as the Chicago Drainage Canal, is a canal system that connects the Chicago River to the Des Plaines River.

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Congo–Nile Divide

The Congo–Nile Divide or the Nile–Congo Watershed is the continental divide that separates the drainage basins of the Congo and Nile rivers. Drainage divide and Congo–Nile Divide are drainage divides.

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Continental divide

A continental divide is a drainage divide on a continent such that the drainage basin on one side of the divide feeds into one ocean or sea, and the basin on the other side either feeds into a different ocean or sea, or else is endorheic, not connected to the open sea. Drainage divide and continental divide are drainage divides.

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Continental Divide of the Americas

The Continental Divide of the Americas (also known as the Great Divide, the Western Divide or simply the Continental Divide) is the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas. Drainage divide and Continental Divide of the Americas are drainage divides.

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Delaware River

The Delaware River is a major river in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and is the longest free-flowing (undammed) river in the Eastern United States.

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Deposition (geology)

Deposition is the geological process in which sediments, soil and rocks are added to a landform or landmass.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. Drainage divide and drainage basin are drainage basins, freshwater ecology, geomorphology, hydrology, rivers, water and the environment and water streams.

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Drava

The Drava or Drave (Drau,; Drava; Drava; Dráva; Drava), historically known as the Dravis or Dravus, is a river in southern Central Europe. by Jürgen Utrata (2014). Retrieved 10 Apr 2014. With a length of,, 27 November 2014 or, if the length of its Sextner Bach source is added, it is the fifth or sixth longest tributary of the Danube, after the Tisza, Sava, Prut, Mureș and likely Siret.

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East Tyrol

East Tyrol, occasionally East Tirol (Osttirol), is an exclave of the Austrian federal state of Tyrol, separated from North Tyrol by parts of Salzburg State and parts of Italian South Tyrol (Südtirol, Alto Adige).

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Eben im Pongau

Eben im Pongau is a municipality in the St. Johann im Pongau district in the Austrian state of Salzburg.

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Finnish Lakeland

Finnish Lakeland or Finnish lake district (Järvi-Suomi, "Lake Finland", Insjöfinland) is the largest of the four landscape regions into which the geography of Finland is divided.

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Finow

Finow is a river of Brandenburg, Germany.

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Gail (river)

Gail (Zilja, Zeglia) is the name of a river in southern Austria, the largest right tributary of the Drava.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.

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Great Lakes

The Great Lakes (Grands Lacs), also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the east-central interior of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River.

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Havel

The Havel is a river in northeastern Germany, flowing through the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Berlin and Saxony-Anhalt.

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Height of Land Portage

Height of Land Portage is a portage along the historic Boundary Waters route between Canada and the United States.

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Hill

A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain.

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Hudson Bay drainage basin

The Hudson Bay drainage basin is the drainage basin in northern North America where surface water empties into the Hudson Bay and adjoining waters.

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Innichen

Innichen (San Candido; Sanciana) is a municipality and a village in South Tyrol in northern Italy.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Kartitsch Saddle

The Kartitsch Saddle (Kartitscher Sattel) (elevation 1,525 m) is a high mountain pass in Austria between the Dolomites and the Carnic Alps in the Bundesland of Tyrol.

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Kirchberg in Tirol

Kirchberg in Tirol is a municipality in the Austrian state of Tyrol in the Kitzbühel district.

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Labrador

Labrador is a geographic and cultural region within the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Lehigh River

The Lehigh River is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Marsh

In ecology, a marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous plants rather than by woody plants.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the primary river and second-longest river of the largest drainage basin in the United States.

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Missouri River

The Missouri River is a river in the Central and Mountain West regions of the United States.

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Mountain

A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock.

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Natural border

A natural border is a border between states or their subdivisions which is concomitant with natural formations such as rivers or mountain ranges.

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Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another.

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North German Plain

The North German Plain or Northern Lowland (Norddeutsches Tiefland) is one of the major geographical regions of Germany.

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Okavango Delta

The Okavango Delta (or Okavango Grassland; formerly spelled "Okovango" or "Okovanggo") in Botswana is a vast inland delta formed where the Okavango River reaches a tectonic trough at an altitude of 930–1,000 m in the central part of the endorheic basin of the Kalahari.

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Orinoco

The Orinoco is one of the longest rivers in South America at. Its drainage basin, sometimes known as the Orinoquia, covers ca 1 million km2, with 65% of it in Venezuela and the 35% in Colombia. It is the fourth largest river in the world by discharge volume of water. The nevertheless high volume flow (39,000 m3/s at delta) of the Orinoco can be explained by the high precipitation in almost the entire catchment area (ca 2,300 mm/a).

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Pisgah Mountain

Pisgah Mountain, or Pisgah Ridge on older USGS maps, is a ridgeline running from Tamaqua to Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania from the Little Schuylkill River water gap to the Lehigh River water gap.

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Portage

Portage or portaging (CA) is the practice of carrying water craft or cargo over land, either around an obstacle in a river, or between two bodies of water.

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Potomac River

The Potomac River is a major river in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States that flows from the Potomac Highlands in West Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.

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Quebec

QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Ridge

A ridge is a long, narrow, elevated geomorphologic landform, structural feature, or a combination of both separated from the surrounding terrain by steep sides.

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Rienz

The Rienz (Rienza) is a river in South Tyrol, Italy.

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River bifurcation

River bifurcation (from furca, fork) occurs when a river (a bifurcating river) flowing in a single channel separates into two or more separate streams (called ''distributaries'') which then continue downstream. Drainage divide and river bifurcation are geomorphology, hydrology and water streams.

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Royal Proclamation of 1763

The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III on 7 October 1763.

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Scree

Scree is a collection of broken rock fragments at the base of a cliff or other steep rocky mass that has accumulated through periodic rockfall.

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South America

South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Stream capture

Stream capture, river capture, river piracy or stream piracy is a geomorphological phenomenon occurring when a stream or river drainage system or watershed is diverted from its own bed, and flows down to the bed of a neighbouring stream. Drainage divide and stream capture are hydrology and rivers.

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Summit

A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it.

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Susquehanna River

The Susquehanna River (Lenape: Siskëwahane) is a major river located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, crossing three lower Northeast states (New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland).

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Terrain

Terrain or relief (also topographical relief) involves the vertical and horizontal dimensions of land surface.

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Toblach

Toblach (Dobbiaco) is a comune/Gemeinde (municipality) in South Tyrol in Northern Italy, located in the Puster Valley about northeast of the city of Bolzano, on the border with Austria.

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Triple divide

A triple divide or triple watershed is a point on Earth's surface where three drainage basins meet. Drainage divide and triple divide are drainage basins, drainage divides and hydrology.

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Urstromtal

An urstromtal (plural: Urstromtäler) is a type of broad glacial valley, for example, in northern Central Europe, that appeared during the ice ages, or individual glacial periods of an ice age, at the edge of the Scandinavian ice sheet and was formed by meltwaters that flowed more or less parallel to the ice margin.

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Valley

A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which typically contains a river or stream running from one end to the other.

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Waidring

Waidring is a municipality in the Kitzbühel district in the Austrian state of Tyrol located 20 km northeast of Kitzbühel and 9 km east of Kirchdorf in Tirol near the border with Salzburg.

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Yangtze

Yangtze or Yangzi is the longest river in Eurasia, the third-longest in the world.

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Yellow River

The Yellow River is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze; with an estimated length of it is the sixth-longest river system on Earth.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drainage_divide

Also known as Divide (drainage), Dividing range, Height of land, Heights of land, Hydrological divide, Valley floor divide, Valley-floor divide, Valley-floor watershed, Water divide, Water divisory, Water parting, Watershed (rivers), Watershed divide, Watershed map.

, Royal Proclamation of 1763, Scree, South America, Stream capture, Summit, Susquehanna River, Terrain, Toblach, Triple divide, Urstromtal, Valley, Waidring, Yangtze, Yellow River.

Drainage divide, the Glossary

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See also

Drainage basins

Drainage divides

Freshwater ecology

References