Drainage Divide

1. The boundary between two adjacent drainage basins. Drainage divides are ridge crests (or less obvious locations where slope of the landscape changes direction). Runoff produced on one side of the ridge flows into stream “A” and runoff on the other side of the ridge flows into stream “B”. 2. The border of a drainage basin. 3. The boundary separating adjacent drainage basins.

Related terms:

• Drainage Basin
• Divide
• continental divide
• Watershed
• drainage density
• climatic divide
• subsequent drainage
• wind divide
• integrated drainage
• Dendritic Drainage