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drainage basin
(redirected from catchment basin)

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drainage basin: see catchment area catchment area or drainage basin, area drained by a stream or other body of water. The limits of a given catchment area are the heights of land—often called drainage divides, or watersheds—separating it from neighboring drainage
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as well as in the further removed catchment basin of the Vaal river.
 
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