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Meanings of drainage area in inglés

portugués
bacia hidrográfica
catalán
dàrsena
español
cuenca

The entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet.

cuenca
Usage of drainage area in inglés
1
The Pompton River has a drainage area above Mountain View of 420 square miles.
The Passaic Flood of 1903
2
The drainage area above this point is 114 square miles.
The Passaic Flood of 1903
3
Mr Deery fell about 800 feet into a drainage area near the town of Wanaka.
The Irish Times
4
With too little drainage area the earth in a pot gets clogged and very often sour.
The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
5
Piecemeal operations within each lesser drainage area can be self-defeating or, at the very least, needlessly expensive.
State of the Union Addresses
6
The drainage area of the Amazon basin above Obidos is about 1,945,000 sq.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
7
The drainage area of the Potomac is 11,000 square miles.
The Elements of Geology
8
No ruins of circular dwellings occur in the Gila-Salado drainage area, where likewise no circular kivas have been observed.
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 / Seventeenth Annual...
9
The total loss in the drainage area of Pompton River was $350,000.
The Passaic Flood of 1903
10
The river Amazon has a drainage area of 2,722,000 sq.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
11
This would conserve 4,026,000,000 cubic feet, equal to 2.69 feet on the drainage area.
The Passaic Flood of 1903
12
It has a drainage area of 244,000 square miles and a length of 1700 miles.
Mormon Settlement in Arizona / A Record of Peaceful Conquest of ...
13
The liver transection line is established in order to obtain the graft, including the drainage area of the left medial vein.
Pubmed
14
The drainage area tributary to this point is about 140 square miles in extent, the country for the most part being quick-spilling and upland.
The Passaic Flood of 1903
15
Therefore the figure 11.74 represents a conservative mean for a calculation of total amount of water over the drainage area.
The Passaic Flood of 1903
16
The capacity of such a reservoir would be 1,768,000,000 cubic feet, equal to about 5.5 inches on the drainage area.
The Passaic Flood of 1903
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