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    A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of...
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    The list of drainage basins by area identifies basins (also known as "catchments" or, in North American usage, "watersheds"), sorted by area, which drain...
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    An endorheic basin (/ˌɛndoʊˈriː.ɪk/ EN-doh-REE-ik; also endoreic basin and endorreic basin) is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows...
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    A drainage basin is an extent of land where water from rain, melting snow, ice or glacier's drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, stream...
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    The Columbia River drainage basin is the drainage basin of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It covers 668,000 km2 or...
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    geomorphology, drainage systems, also known as river systems, are the patterns formed by the streams, rivers, and lakes in a particular drainage basin. They are...
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    Storm drain (redirect from Drainage)
    houses and buildings can connect to the storm drain. Since many storm drainage systems are gravity sewers that drain untreated storm water into rivers...
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  • Drainage density is a quantity used to describe physical parameters of a drainage basin. First described by Robert E. Horton, drainage density is defined...
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  • that form part of the boundaries of the U.S. state of Iowa; ordered by drainage basin, with tributaries indented under each larger river's name; ordered alphabetically...
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    The Murray–Darling Basin is a large geographical area in the interior of southeastern Australia, encompassing the drainage basin of the tributaries of...
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    The Hudson Bay drainage basin is the drainage basin in northern North America where surface water empties into the Hudson Bay and adjoining waters. Spanning...
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    The Sichuan Basin (Chinese: 四川盆地; pinyin: Sìchuān Péndì), formerly transliterated as the Szechwan Basin, sometimes called the Red Basin, is a lowland...
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    Crescent, where Mesopotamian civilization first emerged. The Tigris–Euphrates Basin is shared between Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Kuwait. Many tributaries...
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    drainage divide, water divide, ridgeline, watershed, water parting or height of land is elevated terrain that separates neighboring drainage basins....
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  • The list of rivers of Canada is organized by drainage basin and province. The major Canadian drainage basins are the following: Arctic Ocean Pacific Ocean...
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    Consequently, while six countries have a coastline on the sea, its drainage basin includes parts of 24 countries in Europe. The Black Sea, not including...
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    The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an oceanic basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent...
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    The Mississippi River is the primary river of the largest drainage basin in the United States. It is the second-longest river in the United States, behind...
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    sea North Polar Basin into two oceanic basins: the Eurasian Basin, which is 4,000–4,500 m (13,100–14,800 ft) deep, and the Amerasian Basin (sometimes called...
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    in Canada, whose direct surface runoff and watersheds form a large drainage basin that feeds into the lakes. It is generally considered to also include...
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  • known as drainage basins, in Indonesia. Based on the National River Basin Classification map, Indonesia has a total of 42,210 river basins organized...
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    mouth in Falkenberg, Halland, where the river enters Kattegat. The drainage basin covers an area of 3,343 square kilometres (1,291 sq mi), mostly consisting...
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    The Lake Eyre basin (/ɛər/ AIR) is a drainage basin that covers just under one-sixth of all Australia. It is the largest endorheic basin in Australia and...
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  • of rivers of the U.S. state of Tennessee: This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name...
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    length marks part of the border between Senegal and Mauritania. It has a drainage basin of 270000 km2 (100000 sq mi), a mean flow of 680 m3/s (24,000 cu ft/s)...
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    Euphrates, although canals connecting the Euphrates basin with the Tigris basin exist. The drainage basins of the Kara Su and the Murat River cover an area...
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    larger (and surrounding) Carpentaria Basin province, which in turn is part of the larger East Australian Basins physiographic division. Mangrove tree...
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    and western Rajasthan. The Indus Basin consists of various topographical regions. A large part of the drainage basin is mountainous, and around 40% of...
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  • south-east coast drainage division Murray-Darling Basin South Australian gulf drainage division Lake Eyre Basin Western Plateau List of watercourses in Western...
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    Volga (redirect from Volga basin)
    000 m3/s (280,000 cu ft/s) and 8,500 m3/s (300,000 cu ft/s) – and of drainage basin. It is widely regarded as the national river of Russia. The hypothetical...
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