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Atlantic seaboard watershed

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Atlantic Seaboard
The Atlantic Seaboard Watershed extends southward along the Atlantic Ocean from Nova Scotia to Florida
The Atlantic Seaboard Watershed extends southward along the Atlantic Ocean from Nova Scotia to Florida
LocationCanada and the United States
Area
 • Total720,000 km2 (277,000 sq mi)

The Atlantic seaboard watershed is a watershed of the Atlantic Ocean in eastern North America along the Atlantic Canada (Maritimes) coast south of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence Watershed, and the East Coast of the United States north of the Kissimmee River watershed of Lake Okeechobee basin in the central Florida Peninsula.

The continental area east of the Appalachian Mountains and highlands to the north and south is demarcated on the south by drainage to the Lake Okeechobee basin (which drains both westward to the Gulf and eastward to ocean), the Eastern Continental Divide (ECD) to the west, and the Saint Lawrence divide to the north. US physiographic regions of this watershed are the Atlantic Plain and the Appalachian Mountains & Highlands.

Sub-watersheds adjacent to the Saint Lawrence divide
Other notable sub-watersheds
  • Delaware Bay: 14,119 square miles (36,570 km2)[clarification needed - The 14119 value is just the Delaware River drainage]larger than several, but not adjacent to either divide
Rehoboth Bay
Indian River Bay
Assawoman Bay
Isle of Wight Bay
Sinepuxent Bay
Chincoteague Bay
Sub-watersheds adjacent to the Eastern Continental Divide

References

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