The main European watershed is the drainage divide ("watershed") which separates the basins of the rivers that empty into the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea and the Baltic Sea from those that feed the Mediterranean Sea, the Adriatic Sea and the Black Sea. It stretches from the tip of the Iberian Peninsula at Gibraltar in the southwest to the endorheic basin of the Caspian Sea in Russia in the northeast.
Atlantic—Mediterranean watershed marker between Belfort and Mulhouse on the A36 autoroute
Klepáč – one of six places in Europe where three watersheds meet
Rhine–Danube watershed marker near Weitnau, Germany
European watershed marker (Lviv Oblast, 2009)
The Belfort Gap or Burgundian Gate is the area of relatively flat terrain in Eastern France between the Vosges Mountains to the north and the Jura Mountains to the south. It marks the watershed between the drainage basins of the River Rhine to the east and the River Rhône to the west, part of the European Watershed between the North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. It is also the boundary between the historic regions of Burgundy to the west and Alsace to the east, and as such has marked the Franco-German border for long periods of its history.
View south from Offemont, across the Belfort Gap toward the Jura.
The Belfort Gap (in the southwest) and the other regions of Alsace.