What do you mean by a river basin and its catchment area?
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River basin
MEans the land area that is drained by a river and its tributaries.
catchment area -
means the area from which rainfall flows into a river, lake, or reservoir.
( catchment area or drainage basin is an area of land, where the surface water from rainfall, snowmelt, or ice flow into a lower elevation to form a single body of water, that may be a lake or a river.)
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Drainage basin, also called catchment area, or (in North America) watershed, area from which all precipitation flows to a single stream or set of streams. ... The boundary between drainage basins is a drainage divide: all the precipitation on opposite sides of a drainage divide will flow into different drainage basins
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