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What is the boundary of a drainage basin called?
The boundary of the drainage basin is called a drainage divide. Sometimes drainage basin is called catchment area referring to an area where water flows into a stream or a number of streams. In North America drainage basin is also called Watershed.
What is the largest river or drainage basin in the world?
I checked the web for this next answer, and it says the Amazon River is the longest river/drainage basin in the world. I hope that helped! :)
What is the major drainage basin of South america?
The major drainage basin of South America is the Amazon River. The river has a total basin area of 5,883,400 square kilometers.
What is another name for a drainage basins?
Drainage basin is also called catchment, catchment area, catchment basin, drainage area, river basin, and water basin. It is an area of land. All water that falls on that land flows into one river.
What is the largest drainage basin in the US?
The largest known river basin in the United States is the Mississippi
What river is the world's largest river system?
The Amazon with a drainage basin of 2,270,000 square miles.
Is the Amazon drainage Basin in northeastern Brazil in Atlantic ocean or the Pacific ocean?
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The world's second largest river with the largest drainage basin on earth is the?
Amazon River
Is the river Amazon the largest in the world?
It has the largest drainage basin in the world. The longest is the Nile.
What is the largest drainage drainage basin in the US?
What is the largest drainage basin in the US?
What is the entire area that is drained by a large river?
that is what is called a basin
Any channel that carries water is called?
drainage basin
