A drainage basin is an area of land within which all flowing surface water converges toward a single point, such as a river mouth, or drains into another body of water such as a lake or ocean. It is separated from neighboring basins by a drainage divide, a perimeter formed by ridges, hills, and other elevated terrain. A drainage basin may itself be composed of smaller basins that merge at river confluences, forming a hierarchical structure.
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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 water, such as a lake or ocean
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