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