Comments on: Where is the western divide for the Mississippi River system? http://www.d-r-a-g.org/mississippi-river-system/where-is-the-western-divide-for-the-mississippi-river-system/ Sat, 19 May 2012 12:08:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: AZ Imagined http://www.d-r-a-g.org/mississippi-river-system/where-is-the-western-divide-for-the-mississippi-river-system/#comment-600 AZ Imagined Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:05:59 +0000 http://www.d-r-a-g.org/mississippi-river-system/where-is-the-western-divide-for-the-mississippi-river-system#comment-600 It is difficult to describe in detail...folks claiming the Continental Divide only have it partially correct. North of Montana, and south of Colorado, the Continental Divide is not the western edge of the Mississippi watershed. There is a small map of it here: http://www.nps.gov/archive/miss/features/factoids/watershed.html As you can see, the western edge leaves the Continental Divide in southern Colorado, then goes to the southeast across northeastern New Mexico, northern Texas, and finally into western Louisiana.<br><b>References : </b><br> It is difficult to describe in detail…folks claiming the Continental Divide only have it partially correct. North of Montana, and south of Colorado, the Continental Divide is not the western edge of the Mississippi watershed.

There is a small map of it here:
http://www.nps.gov/archive/miss/features/factoids/watershed.html

As you can see, the western edge leaves the Continental Divide in southern Colorado, then goes to the southeast across northeastern New Mexico, northern Texas, and finally into western Louisiana.
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]]> By: captmhunt http://www.d-r-a-g.org/mississippi-river-system/where-is-the-western-divide-for-the-mississippi-river-system/#comment-599 captmhunt Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:21:59 +0000 http://www.d-r-a-g.org/mississippi-river-system/where-is-the-western-divide-for-the-mississippi-river-system#comment-599 I think you are asking about the Continental Divide and that is the Rocky Mountains<br><b>References : </b><br> I think you are asking about the Continental Divide and that is the Rocky Mountains
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]]> By: common_sense http://www.d-r-a-g.org/mississippi-river-system/where-is-the-western-divide-for-the-mississippi-river-system/#comment-598 common_sense Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:54:59 +0000 http://www.d-r-a-g.org/mississippi-river-system/where-is-the-western-divide-for-the-mississippi-river-system#comment-598 The Continental Divide of the Rocky Mountains.<br><b>References : </b><br> The Continental Divide of the Rocky Mountains.
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