Parting of the Waters
Parting of the Waters is an unusual hydrologic site at Two Ocean Pass on the Great Divide, within the Teton Wilderness area of Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming, USA.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ericshawwhite, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: point on the North American continental divide where water flows to either the Atlantic or the Pacific Ocean
- Also known as: “Parting of the Waters National Natural Landmark” and “Parting of the Waters Natural Landmark”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Two Ocean Pass.
Two Ocean Pass
Mountain saddle
Photo: Barton Warren Evermann, Public domain.
Two Ocean Pass is a mountain pass on North America's Continental Divide, in the Teton Wilderness, which is part of Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest.
Parting of the Waters
- Categories: river fork, National Natural Landmark, and tourism
- Location: Teton, Wyoming, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
44.04283° or 44° 2′ 34″ northLongitude
-110.17536° or 110° 10′ 31″ westElevation
8,192 feet (2,497 metres)Open location code
85PF2RVF+4VOpenStreetMap ID
node 470593241OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap feature
waterway=bifurcationGeoNames ID
5834646Wikidata ID
Q7140601
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Parting of the Waters” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مفترق المياه”
- French: “Parting of the Waters”
- Venetian: “Parting of the Waters”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Parting of the Waters”. Photo: Ericshawwhite, CC BY-SA 3.0.