Much of what remains of the world's rainforests is in the Amazon basin, where the Amazon Rainforest covers approximately 4 million square kilometres.

Drainage basin management covers water-storage, in the form of reservoirs, and flood-protection.

The drainage basin covers 30, 140 square miles ( 78, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup >).

The drainage basin covers 24, 720 square miles ( 64, 030 km < sup > 2 </ sup >).

The Ohio's drainage basin covers, encompassing the easternmost regions of the Mississippi Basin.

The Congo's drainage basin covers.

The Allegheny River drainage basin covers parts of New York and Pennsylvania in the United States.

The Chesapeake Bay's drainage basin covers in the District of Columbia and parts of six states: New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.

With a course that covers a distance of 829 km, it is the fourth-longest in the Iberian peninsula, and its hydrological basin extends into an area of approximately 68, 000 km² ( the majority of which lies within Spain ).

The Guadiana covers a length of 76 kilometres, 818 kilometres of travel distance, of which 578 kilometres are within Spanish territory, 140 kilometres within Portugal, while 100 kilometres are shared between the two nations ; 81. 9 % of its basin is in Spain ( 55, 513 km² ) and 17. 1 % is in Portugal ( 11, 620 km² ).

The Demer river's drainage basin covers most of the central and southern part of the province, except for the southeastern corner, where the Jeker ( in French: ( le ) Geer ) runs past Tongeren and into the river Maas ( in French: ( la ) Meuse ) at Maastricht.

Its drainage basin, sometimes called the Orinoquia, covers, with 76. 3 % of it in Venezuela and the remainder in Colombia.

The park covers the entire Shannon River basin.

The basin covers much of West Australian wheatbelt and extends beyond that in some areas near almost-always-dry Lake Moore in the northeast, water is received regularly from only the extreme western edge of the basin.

The entire Smoky Hill drainage basin covers approximately, including most of north-central and northwestern Kansas.

The lake covers, with a shoreline of and a mean depth of and a maximum depth of ( in the northern basin ) it holds an estimated.

The long river has a drainage basin that covers a full 13 % of Norway's area, all in the southern part of Norway.

Its drainage basin is mostly in the states of Texas and Oklahoma, but also covers parts of Arkansas and Louisiana.

Azande territory covers a vast expanse of land from the fringes of the Upper Nile basin in the South Sudan to the Semitropical rain forests in Congo and part of Central Africa Republic.

The mare basalt covers a majority of the basin and overflows into Lacus Somniorum to the northeast.

* The Neman basin in Lithuania drains more than 20, 000 rivers and rivulets and covers 72 % of Lithuania's territory.

This lake is the largest water body of its kind in Latin America and its basin covers one of the largest oil and gas reserves in the Western hemisphere.

It sits within the Wollongong Statistical District, which covers the local authority areas of Wollongong, Shellharbour and Kiama, extending from the town of Helensburgh in the north to Gerroa in the south Geologically, the city is located in the south-eastern part of the Sydney basin, which extends from Newcastle to Nowra.

Wallace did extensive fieldwork, first in the Amazon River basin and then in the Malay Archipelago, where he identified the Wallace Line that divides the Indonesian archipelago into two distinct parts, one in which animals closely related to those of Australia are common, and one in which the species are largely of Asian origin.

The northeastern parts reach into the Pannonian basin, while in the south it borders the Adriatic sea.

Lake Chad, located in the southwestern part of the basin at an altitude of 282 meters, surprisingly does not mark the basin's lowest point ; instead, this is found in the Bodele and Djourab regions in the north-central and northeastern parts of the country, respectively.

Southeast of Lake Chad, the regular contours of the terrain are broken by the Guéra Massif, which divides the basin into its northern and southern parts.

* Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub, an ecoregion found in various parts of the world, named for the Mediterranean basin

The Berlin Conference ( 1884 – 85 ) established regulations for the acquisition of African colonies ; in particular, it protected free trade in certain parts of the Congo basin.

The largest contiguous areas of high irrigation density are found in North India and Pakistan along the rivers Ganges and Indus, in the Hai He, Huang He and Yangtze basins in China, along the Nile river in Egypt and Sudan, in the Mississippi-Missouri river basin and in parts of California.

All other parts of the county are in the Chesapeake Bay basin.

Coarse materials, because of the high energy needed to move them, tend to be found nearer the source ( mountain fronts or rivers ), whereas the fine-grained material will make it farther from the source ( to the flatter parts of the basin or overbank areas-sometimes called the pressure area ).

In 2005, parts of the Amazon basin experienced the worst drought in one hundred years, and there were indications that 2006 could have been a second successive year of drought.

Wild Asian aurochs disappeared during the time of the Indus Valley Civilization from its range in the Indus basin and other parts of the Indian subcontinent possibly due to inter-breeding with domestic zebu and resultant fragmentation of wild populations due to loss of habitat.

The basin spans four countries, with its largest parts in Germany ( 65. 5 %) and the Czech Republic ( 33. 7 %).

The salinity of the lake's main basin, Gilbert Bay, is highly variable and depends on the lake's level ; it ranges from 5 to 27 % ( 50 to 270 parts per thousand ).

Koasati ( Coushatta ) and Alibamu were spoken in the upper Alabama basin and parts of the Tennessee River.

The Arctic watershed ( or drainage basin ) drains northern parts of Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia, most of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut as well as parts of Yukon into the Arctic Ocean, including the Beaufort Sea and Baffin Bay.

In the early period the name Paraguay was loosely used to designate all the basin of the river, including parts of what are now Uruguay, Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil.

These rare-earth oxides are used as tracers to determine which parts of a drainage basin are eroding.

The center and northern parts are somewhat low and a U-shaped basin, open in the north and with Lake Dongting as its center.

Lough Corrib can be divided into two parts: a smaller shallower basin to the south and a larger deeper basin to the north.

After a peace treaty was signed in Požarevac, the Ottomans lost all its possessions in the Danube basin, as well as today's northern Serbia and northern Bosnia, parts of Dalmatia and the Peloponnesus.