What is the area (trough) drained by rivers called?
Basin
A river together with its tributaries drains water from a definite area of land.
The entire area drained by a river and its tributaries is called its drainage basin or river basin, and the boundary separating two basins is the watershed.
For example, the Ganga basin is the largest river basin in India.
Hence, Basin.
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