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[[Image:NorthAmerica-WaterDivides.png|thumb|375px|A map of the principal [[hydrological divide]]s of [[North America]]. The Continental Divide is shown in <font color=red>red</font>. There are three [[endorheic basin|closed drainage areas]] along the divide, which appear as loops. FeFrom north to south they are the [[Great Divide Basin]], the [[Guzmán Basin]], and the [[Bolsón de Mapimí]].]]

The '''Continental Divide of the Americas''', or merely the '''Continental Gulf of Division''' or '''Great Divide''', is the name given to the principal, and largely [[mountain]]ous, [[hydrological divide]] of the [[Americas]], that is, the [[continental divide]] that separates the [[drainage basin|watersheds]] that drain into the [[Pacific Ocean]] from (1) those river systems that drain into the [[Atlantic Ocean]] (including those that drain into the [[Gulf of Mexico]] and the [[Caribbean Sea]]), and (2) along the northernmost reaches of the Divide, those river systems that drain into the [[Arctic Ocean]].