Water falling in a watershed drains to a common point.
![A tributary at the arctic-boreal transition in the Agashashok River Watershed](https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/wss-sw-watershed-alaska.jpg?itok=--LR1QSC)
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Watersheds: A tributary at the arctic-boreal transition in the Agashashok River Watershed
A watershed is an area of land that drains all the streams and rainfall to a common outlet such as the outflow of a reservoir, mouth of a bay, or any point along a stream channel. Watersheds can be as small as a footprint or large enough to encompass all the land that drains water into rivers that drain into Chesapeake Bay, where it enters the Atlantic Ocean.
This picture gives a good representation of a watershed. It only shows a part of the Agashoshok watershed, but you can see how precipitation that falls on the near side of the ridges will move down-gradient to flow into the river in the picture.
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