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  2. List of drainage basins by area - Wikipedia

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    It includes oceanic sea drainage basins which have hydrologically coherent areas (oceanic seas are set by IHO convention). The oceans drain approximately 83% of the land in the world. The other 17% – an area larger than the basin of the Arctic Ocean – drains to internal endorheic basins. There are also substantial areas of the world that do ...

  3. Drainage basin - Wikipedia

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    Drainage basin of the Ohio River, part of the Mississippi River drainage basin. In hydrology, the drainage basin is a logical unit of focus [clarification needed] for studying the movement of water within the hydrological cycle. The process of finding a drainage boundary is referred to as watershed delineation. Finding the area and extent of a ...

  4. Watershed delineation - Wikipedia

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    Watershed delineation is the process of identifying the boundary of a watershed, also referred to as a catchment, drainage basin, or river basin.It is an important step in many areas of environmental science, engineering, and management, for example to study flooding, aquatic habitat, or water pollution.

  5. Portal:Wetlands/Selected article/14 - Wikipedia

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    Drainage basins drain into other drainage basins in a hierarchical pattern, with smaller sub-drainage basins combining into larger drainage basins. In closed ("endorheic") drainage basins the water converges to a single point inside the basin, known as a sink , which may be a permanent lake, dry lake , or a point where surface water is lost ...

  6. Catchment hydrology - Wikipedia

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    Catchment hydrology is the study of hydrology in drainage basins. Catchments are areas of land where runoff collects to a specific zone. This movement is caused by water moving from areas of high energy to low energy due to the influence of gravity .

  7. Great Basin - Wikipedia

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    The Great Basin (Spanish: ... the region comprises many small basins. ... and the largest single watershed is the Humboldt River drainage of roughly 17,000 sq mi ...

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