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The border between North America and South America is at some point on the Darién Mountains watershed that divides along the Colombia–Panama border where the isthmus meets the South American continent (see Darién Gap). Virtually all atlases list Panama as a state falling entirely within North America and/or Central America. [116] [117]
Map showing the Grand Banks. The Grand Banks of Newfoundland are a series of underwater plateaus south-east of the island of Newfoundland on the North American continental shelf. The Grand Banks are one of the world's richest fishing grounds, supporting Atlantic cod, swordfish, haddock and capelin, as well as shellfish, seabirds and sea mammals.
The Great American Biotic Interchange (commonly abbreviated as GABI), also known as the Great American Interchange and the Great American Faunal Interchange, was an important late Cenozoic paleozoogeographic biotic interchange event in which land and freshwater fauna migrated from North America to South America via Central America and vice ...
The Continental Divide in North America in red and other drainage divides in North America The Continental Divide in Central America and South America. The Continental Divide of the Americas (also known as the Great Divide, the Western Divide or simply the Continental Divide; Spanish: Divisoria continental de las Américas, Gran Divisoria) is the principal, and largely mountainous ...
In the North Atlantic, spawning is known from the Sargasso Sea, [25] and in water warmer than 23 °C (73 °F) and less than 75 m (246 ft; 41 fathoms) deep. [3] Spawning occurs from November to February in the South Atlantic off southern Brazil. [3] Spawning is year-round in the Caribbean Sea and other warm regions of the west Atlantic. [6]
World map of the five-ocean model with approximate boundaries This list of countries which border two or more oceans includes both sovereign states and dependencies , provided the same contiguous territory borders on more than one of the five named oceans , the Pacific , Atlantic , Indian , Southern , and Arctic . [ 1 ]
Malibu Canyon, Santa Monica Mountains. The Pacific Coast Ranges (officially gazetted as the Pacific Mountain System [1] in the United States; French: chaînes côtières du Pacifique; Spanish: cadena costera del Pacífico) [2] are the series of mountain ranges that stretch along the West Coast of North America from Alaska south to Northern and Central Mexico.
The Central American Seaway (also known as the Panamanic Seaway, Inter-American Seaway and Proto-Caribbean Seaway) was a body of water that once separated North America from South America. It formed during the Jurassic (200–154 Ma ) during the breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea , and closed when the Isthmus of Panama was formed by volcanic ...