Is the Continental Divide on the eastern or western part of the United States?

Answer 1

North America has four continental divides:
The Great Divide, also called the Continental Divide separates the watersheds of the Pacific Ocean from those of the Atlantic or Arctic Oceans. It runs from the Seward Peninsula in Alaska, through western Canada along the crest of the Rocky Mountains to New Mexico. From there, it follows the crest of Mexico's Sierra Madre Oriental and extends to the tip of South America. It is crossed by the Panama Canal.
The Northern Divide, or Laurentian Divide, separates the watershed of the Atlantic Ocean from that of the Arctic Ocean.
The St. Lawrence Seaway Divide separates the Great Lakes watershed from the rest of the Atlantic Ocean watershed. Two canals cross the divide: The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal crosses the Chicago Portage and connects Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River watershed. The Erie Canal connects Lake Erie to the Hudson River watershed.
The Eastern Continental Divide separates the watershed of the Gulf of Mexico from the Atlantic Ocean. It runs from northern Pennsylvania down the Appalachian Mountains to the tip of Florida, dividing the Atlantic from the Gulf of Mexico. The city of Atlanta sits atop this divide.
I would take it that you were askig about the one most Americans think of: THE GREAT DIVIDE.

Answer 2

The continental divide is in the western part of the United States...I saw it in Colorado.

Answer 3

Technically it is in the middle as all of the rivers and streams west of the divide drain into the Pacific Ocean and all of the rivers and streams east of the divide drain into the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic Ocean.The watershed actually is in all of the American Continents both north and south mainly following the Rockies in North America and the Andee's in South America. The Eastern divide does not stretch the entire Continent.

Answer 4

It divides the country into east and west.

Answer 5

Western. Check Colorado and find it there.

Answer 6

western, it's in the rocky mountains

Answer 7

western...its basically the rocky mountain chain...

Answer 8

weastern. right down the rockies.