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North America's major continental divide is the Great Divide, which runs north and south down through Rocky Mountains. The major watersheds draining to the include the Mississippi / Missouri and Rio Grande draining into the Gulf of Mexico (part of the Atlantic Ocean), and the St. Lawrence draining into the Atlantic .
Landforms of North America by country (33 C) Landforms of North America by dependent territory (11 C)-Landforms of the Caribbean (11 C, 4 P)
Mountain ranges of North America by country (12 C) ... Landforms of Central America by country (9 C) A. Landforms of Antigua and Barbuda (6 C, 2 P) B.
The United States contains varied landforms across its territory. These include: List of beaches in the United States; List of fjords of the United States; List of glaciers in the United States; List of islands of the United States; List of lakes of the United States; List of rivers of the United States
The Chihuahuan Desert is the largest hot desert in North America, located in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. Its total area is 140,000 sq mi (360,000 km 2). The Sonoran Desert is a desert located in the Southwestern United States and northwest Mexico. It is the second largest hot desert in North America.
Landforms of the United States by state (73 C) Landforms of the Great Basin (8 C, 4 P) Natural features on the National Register of Historic Places (1 C, 27 P)
This once-active divergent plate boundary became the passive, trailing edge of westward moving North America. In plate tectonic terms, the Atlantic Plain is known as a classic example of a passive continental margin. [20] During the rifting, South America tore away from North America and headed southward.
A map of North America's physical, political, and population characteristics as of 2018. North America is a continent [b] in the Northern and Western Hemispheres. [c] North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean.