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Watersheds of North America are large drainage basins which drain to separate oceans, seas, gulfs, or endorheic basins. There are six generally recognized hydrological continental divides which divide the continent into seven principal drainage basins spanning three oceans ( Arctic , Atlantic and Pacific ) and one endorheic basin.
The list of drainage basins by area identifies basins (also known as "catchments" or, in North American usage, "watersheds"), sorted by area, which drain to oceans, mediterranean seas, rivers, lakes and other water bodies.
Glover Island, world's 18th largest inland island; River islands of North America: Saint Lawrence River. Île de Montréal, most populous island of Canada; Niagara River. Grand Island; Navy Island; Goat Island; Dufferin Islands; Hudson River. Schodack Island; Westerlo (Castle) Island; Susquehanna River. McCormick Island; Wade Island
Through central New York, the divide separates the Oswego River watershed, which contains most of the Finger Lakes region, to the north from the Susquehanna River basin to the south. The divide then follows the boundary of the Hudson River watershed to the south through the Adirondacks , dipping briefly south of Lake George and Lake Champlain ...
Currently at an overflow level and therefore draining into the sea via the Lukuga River, but the lake level has been lower in the past, possibly as recently as 1800. Tularosa Basin and Lake Cabeza de Vaca in North America. Basin formerly much larger than at present, including the ancestral Rio Grande north of Texas, feeding a large lake area.
Watersheds of the United States (18 C, 57 P) Pages in category "Drainage basins of North America" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
The Atlantic seaboard watershed is a watershed of the Atlantic Ocean in eastern North America along the Atlantic Canada coast south of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence Watershed, and the East Coast of the United States north of the Kissimmee River watershed of Lake Okeechobee basin in the central Florida Peninsula.
Arctic Ocean. In the Americas, only the United States, Canada, and Greenland have rivers on the Arctic Ocean coast. Greenland is surrounded by the Barents Sea (part of the Arctic Ocean), the Greenland Sea (often described as part of the Arctic Ocean), Baffin Bay to the west (marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean), the Labrador Sea to the south (part of the Arctic Ocean), and directly to the Arctic ...