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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.

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All the land drained by a river and its branches?

Drainage basin.


What is an area of land drained by a river and is branches called?

An area of land that drains to one river (or a river and its tributaries) is a drainage basin or watershed.


An inland body of water surrounded by land?

lake


A is water that has drained from the land and flows downhill to the sea?

river


What is land drained by a river surrounded by higher land?

Basin


What is an area of land that is drained by a river?

basin


What is the name for the land that is drained by the river system?

a watershed, also called a drainage basin, is an area drained by a river.


What is the area of land that is drained by a river system?

Basin


What best describes a watershed?

It is an area of land that is drained by a river. It is also a ridge or elevated area of land that divides two areas of land that are drained by two river systems.


What is the area called where rivers flood land?

A river basin is an area of land drained by a river and its tributaries.


What is the basin of the river?

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.


What is the best definition of a river basin?

A tract of land that is drained by a river and its tributaries.