Catchment area | Glossaire eau, milieu marin et biodiversité

Synonymes

drainage basin.

Sens technique

Surface area feeding a watercourse or a body of water. The catchment area is defined as the area of water collecting up to an outlet: it is limited by a border within which all waters flow on the surface and underground to this outlet. Its boundaries are the watersheds (water divide - US).

Source

According to OFB

Thématiques associées

Environment and habitat, Quantity of the resource, Hydrology.

Autres termes utiles à la compréhension issus du glossaire

Watershed (UK), Outlet, River basin (UK), Database on thematic mapping of the Water Agencies, Public water management and development agency, Public river-basin territorial agency, River basin head, Groundwater.

Termes associés à des définitions du Sandre

BASSIN VERSANT.

Terme associé dans le Thésaurus Eau et Biodiversité

BASSIN VERSANT

Ressources complémentaires

Le bassin versant