Catchment Area

A catchment area may refer to:

  • Catchment area (human geography), the area and population from which a facility or region attracts visitors or customers
  • Drainage basin, an extent of land where water from precipitation drains into a body of water

Famous quotes containing the word area:

    “If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,—if only that the sun shines, and the rain rains for both; the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it the boundary mountains, on which the eye had fastened, have melted into air.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)