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DRAINAGE PATTERNS

Water flows into a river channel from a wide area.

This wide area is known as a catchment area or a drainage basin.

• A watershed separates one drainage basin from the next.

• Most rivers begin at a spring.

• Tributaries each join the main river at a confluence.

• The river flows into the sea at its mouth.

• Drainage patterns can be radial, trellised or dendritic.


DRAINAGE PATTERNS

Dendritic pattern: this drainage pattern looks like a tree with the main river as a trunk and tributaries as
branches

Rectangular pattern/Trellis pattern: follows a rectangular pattern where tributaries are perpendicular
and confluences are at 90 degrees angle

Radial pattern: here the rivers radiate from a central point like the spokes of a wheel and often
associated with volcanic islands.
IDENTIFYING DRAINAGE PATTERNS ON A TOPOGRAPHIC MAP

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