Home›More›Subcategories›River Basins and Drainage BasinsSubcategoriesRiver Basins and Drainage Basins19 of 287 entries in Landforms. Click any to see everything it connects to.Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextGeography Atlas. "River Basins and Drainage Basins." Accessed September 6, 2026. https://geography.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/landform/river-basins-and-drainage-basins.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextGeography Atlas. (n.d.). River Basins and Drainage Basins. Retrieved September 6, 2026, from https://geography.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/landform/river-basins-and-drainage-basinsCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{geographyatlas-river-basins-and-drainage-basins, author = {Geography Atlas}, title = {River Basins and Drainage Basins}, year = {2026}, url = {https://geography.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/landform/river-basins-and-drainage-basins}, note = {Accessed September 6, 2026} }Copy BibTeXReference and ClassificationDevelopingThe whole area of land a river system and its tributaries drain, treated as a single geographic unit rather than the river channel alone, such as the Amazon Basin or the Congo Basin. Belongs here: a named drainage basin. Does not belong here: the river itself, which is a bodyofwater entity, not a landform.Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)BrowseCompareSelect all 19Alluvial FanRiver Basins and Drainage Basins1 linkDeltaRiver Basins and Drainage Basins1 linkDistributaryRiver Basins and Drainage Basins1 linkFloodplainRiver Basins and Drainage Basins1 linkGanges BasinRiver Basins and Drainage Basins1 linkMeanderRiver Basins and Drainage Basins1 linkMekong River BasinRiver Basins and Drainage Basins1 linkMississippi River BasinRiver Basins and Drainage Basins1 linkMurray-Darling BasinRiver Basins and Drainage Basins1 linkNatural LeveeRiver Basins and Drainage Basins1 linkNile BasinRiver Basins and Drainage Basins1 linkOxbow LakeRiver Basins and Drainage Basins1 linkPoint BarRiver Basins and Drainage Basins1 linkRiver BasinRiver Basins and Drainage Basins1 linkRiver TerraceRiver Basins and Drainage Basins1 linkThe Amazon BasinRiver Basins and Drainage Basins14 linksThe Congo BasinRiver Basins and Drainage Basins17 linksWatershedRiver Basins and Drainage Basins1 linkYangtze River BasinRiver Basins and Drainage Basins1 linkComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year