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What can serve as a drainage divide between adjacent watersheds

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A hill, ridge or a mountain can serve as a drainage divide between adjacent watersheds.

To add, a watershed is the area of land (catchment area) that captures rain and snow, and then

stores, filters, seeps or drains this water into a common water body (marsh, stream, river, or

lake).

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