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Meanings of water parting in English

Portuguese
cumeeira
Catalan
línia divisòria

A ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems.

        cumeeira
        Usage of water parting in English
        1
        With little difficulty they transported their canoe across the water parting to the Peace River.
        Pioneers in Canada
        2
        The Witwatersrand (White River Slope) is a slight elevation, the water parting between rivers, about one and a half miles wide and 125 miles long.
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