Drainage basin.
Land drained by a river is a watershed. This is an area of land that feeds all the water running under it and draining off of it into a body of water.
A River basin is the portion of land drained by a river and its tributaries. It encompasses all of the land surface dissected and drained by many streams and creeks that flow downhill into one another, and eventually into one river. The final destination is an estuary or an ocean. As a bathtub catches all the water that falls within its sides, a river basin sends all the water falling on the surrounding land into a central river and out to the sea.
My understanding is that it consisted of all the land drained by the Mississippi-Missouri river complex. The exact boundaries were not at all precise.
Drainage basin.
the Mississippi.
the Mississippi.
A small river or stream is not called a river basin. A river basin is a portion of land drained by a river and it's tributaries. It encompasses all of the land surface dissected and drained by streams and creeks that flow downhill into one another, and eventually into one river.
that is what is called a basin
a river system
The catchment or drainae basin is all the land from the mountain to to seashore, drained by a single river and its tributaries is called catchment area or drainage basin
all the land that drained into the Mississippi River and Florida that Spain had to give for siding with the French during the war
The catchment or drainae basin is all the land from the mountain to to seashore, drained by a single river and its tributaries is called catchment area or drainage basin