The line of the summits, also called watershed, delimits a hydrographic basin.

The use of natural

resources is regulated administratively by separating the territory by river basins, and with a view to

the future, the river basins are emerging as the functional units of division with more coherence,

allowing true social and territorial integration through water.

A watershed and a watershed differ in that the watershed refers exclusively to surface waters, while

the watershed includes groundwater (aquifers).

Soil erosion is the displacement of its upper layer, a form of soil degradation. A low level of soil

erosion is a natural process throughout the land. The agents of soil erosion are water and wind, each

of which contributes a significant amount of soil loss every year. Soil erosion can be a slow process

that remains relatively unnoticed, or it can occur at an alarming rate, causing serious loss of the

topsoil.

From the hydrographic point of view, the Topographic Survey consists of a series of activities

carried out with the purpose of describing the composition of those parts of the earth's surface that

protrude from the water. It includes the relief of the coast and the location of accidents and

permanent natural or artificial characteristics. Such information is obtained in part by determining

the position of the land points, which allow to obtain their shape, as well as the details of the

accidents to be shown, allowing their location and description on a plane.

But also the term topography has other applications, for example in hydrography it is used to

represent surfaces of the bottom of bodies of water, or limits of some characteristics of water

bodies. But they always share as a final objective the description of surfaces that cover a physical

body.