Situated on a Continental Divide

Connected Sites: 11

A continental divide is a drainage divide on a continent such that the drainage basin on one side of the divide feeds into one ocean or sea, and the basin on the other side either feeds into a different ocean or sea, or else is endoorheic, not connected to the open sea. (wiki)

Connected Sites

  • Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
    Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
    Canada, United States of America
    Inscribed: 1995
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    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
  • Pyrénées - Mont Perdu
    Inscribed: 1997
    3.57
    120
    7
    Mont Perdu French sections drains into the Atlantic Ocean Spanish sections into the Mediterranean Sea
  • Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
    Inscribed: 2001
    3.91
    220
    11
    Northern part drains on the Rhine bassin to the North Sea, South part on the Rhone bassin to the Mediterranean See
  • Great Smoky Mountains
    Great Smoky Mountains
    United States of America
    Inscribed: 1983
    3.36
    171
    11
    Eastern Divide
  • Primeval Beech Forests
    Primeval Beech Forests
    Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine
    Inscribed: 2007
    2.71
    316
    37
    The main ridge on the Polish border is on the Continental divide (UNEP-WCMC)
  • Yellowstone
    Yellowstone
    United States of America
    Inscribed: 1978
    4.49
    214
    12
    The Continental Divide of North America runs diagonally through the southwestern part of the park (wiki)
  • Three parallel rivers of Yunnan
    Inscribed: 2003
    3.41
    60
    6
    Headwaters of the Salween into the Indian Ocean via the Irawaddy and the Yangtse and Mekong into the Pacific
  • Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves
    Inscribed: 1983
    2.90
    48
    5
    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".
  • Huascaran National Park
    Inscribed: 1985
    3.77
    67
    7
    Via the Marañón River into the Amazon and the Atlantic, Via the Santa and Pativilca Rivers into the Pacific
  • Greater Blue Mountains
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.19
    197
    15
    Part of the Great Dividing Range which drains eastwards to the Tasman Sea (Pacific Ocean) and south-westwards through the Murray-Darling basin to the Great Australian Bight (Indian Ocean).
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
    Inscribed: 1984
    4.41
    179
    9
    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.