The top of the escarpment forms a drainage divide between the interior and the coastal plains.

Passes are often found just above the source of a river, constituting a drainage divide.

The two waterways are separated from each other by high ridges which even make for a local drainage divide where smaller streams are concerned.

It forms part of the drainage divide between the Seine and Loire rivers.

Suomenselkä is a drainage divide in western Finland.

Its western border with Quebec is the drainage divide of the Labrador peninsula.

Along this drainage divide, the land is highly denuded with many small buttes and hoodoos.

The glacier dammed Lake Prouty on the edge of the drainage divide.

The drainage divide is just north of Route 206 in Augusta.

Most of the border follows the drainage divide in the Scandinavian Mountains.