Great Basin Divide

Hydrological divide in western United States bounding a large endorheic basin Great Basin DivideThe Great Basin Divide (shown as the brown line on the map) demarcates the Great Basin.GeographyCountriesUnited States and MexicoParent rangeNorth America Columbia/ Klamath 44.1°N (Silvies R divide) DeanPass Columbia/Colorado I-80[citation needed] I-70[citation needed] Paunsaugunt Pl Delamar V Klamath/ SacramentoPegleg Mtn I-80 Euer P Peeler Lake Crumbly Sp Tehachapi Pass Wasson Sill 31.46°N Great Basin Divide -triple pt, -overflow pt, -border, -other The Great Basin Divide in the western United States is the ridgeline that separates the Great Basin from the Pacific Ocean watershed, which completely surrounds it. The Great Basin is the largest set of contiguous endorheic watersheds of North America, including six entire USGS watershed subregions. It contains the watersheds of several large prehistoric and still-existing lakes, most notably Lake Bonneville, Lake Lahontan, Lake Manly, and the Salton Sea. As such, it occupies most of present-day Nevada, about half of Utah, large parts of eastern California and Oregon, and small parts of Idaho, Wyoming, and Baja California. The arid climat