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All roads lead to Rome, all rain leads to one river.
means The entire sweep of land where every creek, stream, and drop of rain drains downhill into a single river system.
from 'Basin' traveled from Old French 'bacin' back to a presumed Vulgar Latin 'bacchinus,' meaning a wide shallow dish — the same humble household vessel in your kitchen. Geologists and geographers borrowed the word because a landscape draining into one river really does look, from above, like water pooling toward the low center of a great tilted bowl.
- definition
- land area draining into a single river system
- scale
- amazon basin covers 40 percent of south america
- borders
- ridgelines, not rivers, define where basins actually end
- politics
- basins ignore national borders, causing most water treaties