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Drainage basin
noun
A topographic region in which all water drains to a common outlet; a watershed.
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Rainfall varies considerably throughout the drainage basin.
The Great Lakes and their drainage basin.
Its drainage basin is endorheic.
He pointed out that there were 8,000 dams in the drainage basin of the Mississippi.
…the Mississippi River constitutes its drainage basin, whereas that part of the Mississippi River drained by the Ohio River is the Ohio's drainage basin.
All six share the same drainage basin, emptying into the St . Lawrence River
The Rhone's length is 813 kilometres, its drainage basin measures about 100,000 square metres.
Its drainage basin covers some 5,000 square miles (13,000 square km) in all.
The climate of the drainage basin is warm and semiarid to arid.
Its drainage basin is 10,847 square miles (28,093 square km).
The area of its drainage basin is 4,109 square miles (10,641 square km).
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