Eastern Continental Divide

Eastern Continental Divide
Eastern Divide
Ridge
The Eastern Divide and the Saint Lawrence Seaway Divide; in conjunction with the Great Divide, the Northern Divide, & the (not depicted) Yucatán divide; subdivide the Atlantic Ocean watershed into three areas: the watershed of the Gulf of Mexico a combined area with the two watersheds, the Gulf of Saint Lawrence watershed (405,261 mi²) and the Labrador Sea watershed; and the watershed of the Atlantic Seaboard.
Country	United States
Range	Appalachian Mountains

The ECD is one of the divides which subdivide the Atlantic Ocean watershed.

The Eastern Continental Divide (ECD, Eastern Divide), in conjunction with other continental divides of North America, demarcates two watersheds of the Atlantic Ocean: the Gulf of Mexico watershed and the Atlantic Seaboard watershed. Prior to 1760, the ECD represented the boundary between British and French colonial possessions in North America (France claimed the drainage areas of the Mississippi River and the Saint Lawrence River.)^{[clarification needed]} The ECD runs south-southwest from the Eastern Triple Divide through several Atlantic Seaboard states (and West Virginia) to the southern tip of Florida.

The Eastern Triple Divide is a triple watershed point located at the intersection of North American watersheds of the Atlantic Seaboard, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence at the respective Pennsylvania headwaters of Pine Creek (West Branch Susquehanna River), the Allegheny River, and the Genesee River.

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