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That depends a lot on the nature of the land and topopgraphy.

Some water runs off into streams.

Some is absorbed into the topsoil then taken up by plants.

Some sinks into an aquifer (possibly a cave in karst landscape) and rises from springs at lower altitudes.

Some if simply re-evaporates.

If the precipitation is snow on a mountain it may feed a glacier, though in time is released as melt-water feeding a river.

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