Um resgate histórico sobre a bacia hidrográfica no contexto do imperialismo dos séculos XVII e XVIII. Os casos da França e da Inglaterra.

The purpose of this article is to rescue the historical moment in which hydrographic basins turn out to be considered as spatial units for planning and regionalization of the territory. Hydrographic basins have scientifically been chosen as structure of morphological differentiation of the Earth's crust since the seventeenth century pari passu the migration of the world-system of the Mediterranean up to Northern Europe in a time of effective imperialist struggle between France and Great Britain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]