The main European watershed

Watersheds on a map of Europe (marked with red lines)

The main European watershed is the line dividing the basins of European rivers, some of which flow into the Atlantic Ocean and the North Atlantic Seas, others into the Mediterranean Sea and the seas of the Mediterranean Sea (as well as the Caspian Sea ).

The main European watershed divides the European continent along its entire length into two parts - conditionally northern and conditionally southern. The watershed begins in the extreme southwest of Europe, passes through Spain, France, Switzerland, Austria (the east of the country), Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland (the extreme southeast), Ukraine, Belarus and Russia (the European part). In the east, the main European watershed ends in the Ural Mountains .