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Situated on a "Continental Divide"

WHS whose inscribed area includes a continental hydrological divide which separates waters draining into different Oceans. On this basis, "secondary" divides like the "Appalachian Divide" are not counted since they only drain into one Ocean - in this case the Atlantic - albeit, in one direction, via the Gulf of Mexico. The definition of "Oceans" and, in particular, the assignment of "seas" to them is as per the IHO (International Hydrological Organisation").

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Situated on a "Continental Divide"':

  • Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks AB evaluation :- "The four parks are aligned along the continental divide - which marks the hydrographic apex of North America separating the drainage basins of the Arctic, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans." At Snow Dome waters debouch into the Atlantic (via the N Saskatchewan River and on into Hudson'ds Bay), Arctic (via the Athabasca River) and Pacific (via the Columbia River ) Oceans.
  • Huascaran National Park Via the Marañón River into the Amazon and the Atlantic, Via the Santa and Pativilca Rivers into the Pacific
  • Pyrénées - Mount Perdu Mont Perdu French sections drains into the Atlantic Ocean Spanish sections into the Mediterranean Sea
  • Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch Northern part drains on the Rhine bassin to the North Sea, South part on the Rhone bassin to the Mediterranean See
  • Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves The International Park is situated generally across the cordillera which constitutes the Continental Divide and, e.g the Costa Rican portion includes the "Caribbean La Amistad and Pacific La Amistad Conservation Areas".
  • Three parallel rivers of Yunnan Headwaters of the Salween into the Indian Ocean via the Irawaddy and the Yangtse and Mekong into the Pacific
  • Waterton Glacier International Peace Park Sometimes said to be the only place in the World with a "triple point." Waters from the park debouch into the Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. However, officially, Hudson's Bay is also part of the Atlantic Ocean so this point actually only connects 2 Oceans