The entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet.
1But efforts to build hydroelectric dams in the Tapajós river basin continue.
2Severe flooding hit the Yangtze river basin in China this week.
3The Harirud river basin is shared by Afghanistan, Iran and Turkmenistan.
4The river basin showed luxuriant grassy slopes and immense sugar plantations.
5Nestled into the side of a mountain, it overlooks the Liffey river basin.
6Pakistan's Indus river basin is supplied by melting snow and glaciers from the Himalayas.
7Last week, seven South American countries agreed on measures to protect the Amazon river basin.
8Poised between spaceport and water, the city was the key to colonizing the entire river basin.
9Districts in southern Sindh were on high alert as the water surged down the Indus river basin.
10Lake Allatoona is fed by a river basin that flows from Georgia through Alabama to Mobile Bay.
11Only a dim glow lit my path away from the steep bank of the swampy river basin.
12We assessed the relative influence of ecoregional features in explaining diatom distribution in the Orinoco river basin.
13The treaty divides up control between India and Pakistan of several rivers draining into the Indus river basin.
14But it was not in such a simple manner that the great river basin was to become known.
15This is obvious from the large clearings in the rainforest and contaminated rivers in the Tapajos river basin.
16The river flows from Kashmir to the Pakistan side, and then down into Pakistan's lower Indus river basin.
Translations for river basin