diff --git a/aws/resource_aws_api_gateway_rest_api.go b/aws/resource_aws_api_gateway_rest_api.go
index ffd553657ec..ee1849222b0 100644
--- a/aws/resource_aws_api_gateway_rest_api.go
+++ b/aws/resource_aws_api_gateway_rest_api.go
@@ -65,6 +65,13 @@ func resourceAwsApiGatewayRestApi() *schema.Resource {
 				Optional: true,
 			},
 
+			"body_base_path": {
+				Type:         schema.TypeString,
+				Default:      "ignore",
+				Optional:     true,
+				ValidateFunc: validation.StringInSlice([]string{"ignore", "prepend", "split"}, true),
+			},
+
 			"minimum_compression_size": {
 				Type:         schema.TypeInt,
 				Optional:     true,
@@ -175,12 +182,20 @@ func resourceAwsApiGatewayRestApiCreate(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{}
 
 	d.SetId(aws.StringValue(gateway.Id))
 
+	bodyBasePathMode := d.Get("body_base_path").(string)
+
 	if body, ok := d.GetOk("body"); ok {
 		log.Printf("[DEBUG] Initializing API Gateway from OpenAPI spec %s", d.Id())
 		_, err := conn.PutRestApi(&apigateway.PutRestApiInput{
 			RestApiId: gateway.Id,
 			Mode:      aws.String(apigateway.PutModeOverwrite),
 			Body:      []byte(body.(string)),
+			Parameters: map[string]*string{
+				// See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/apigateway/import-rest-api.html
+				// At the moment of writing, according to aws support, the docs are incorrect
+				// and the parameter should be called 'basepath' and not 'basePath'
+				"basepath": &bodyBasePathMode,
+			},
 		})
 		if err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("error creating API Gateway specification: %s", err)
@@ -411,12 +426,17 @@ func resourceAwsApiGatewayRestApiUpdate(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{}
 	}
 
 	if d.HasChange("body") {
+		bodyBasePathMode := d.Get("body_base_path").(string)
+
 		if body, ok := d.GetOk("body"); ok {
 			log.Printf("[DEBUG] Updating API Gateway from OpenAPI spec: %s", d.Id())
 			_, err := conn.PutRestApi(&apigateway.PutRestApiInput{
 				RestApiId: aws.String(d.Id()),
 				Mode:      aws.String(apigateway.PutModeOverwrite),
 				Body:      []byte(body.(string)),
+				Parameters: map[string]*string{
+					"basepath": &bodyBasePathMode,
+				},
 			})
 			if err != nil {
 				return fmt.Errorf("error updating API Gateway specification: %s", err)
diff --git a/aws/resource_aws_api_gateway_rest_api_test.go b/aws/resource_aws_api_gateway_rest_api_test.go
index 7555fe1d856..58072a6318f 100644
--- a/aws/resource_aws_api_gateway_rest_api_test.go
+++ b/aws/resource_aws_api_gateway_rest_api_test.go
@@ -513,6 +513,105 @@ func TestAccAWSAPIGatewayRestApi_openapi(t *testing.T) {
 	})
 }
 
+func TestAccAWSAPIGatewayRestApi_openapi_body_base_path_ignore(t *testing.T) {
+	var conf apigateway.RestApi
+
+	resource.ParallelTest(t, resource.TestCase{
+		PreCheck:     func() { testAccPreCheck(t) },
+		Providers:    testAccProviders,
+		CheckDestroy: testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayRestAPIDestroy,
+		Steps: []resource.TestStep{
+			{
+				Config: testAccAWSAPIGatewayRestAPIConfigOpenAPIBasePathIgnore,
+				Check: resource.ComposeTestCheckFunc(
+					testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayRestAPIExists("aws_api_gateway_rest_api.test", &conf),
+					testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayRestAPIRoutes(&conf, []string{"/", "/test"}),
+				),
+			},
+			{
+				ResourceName:            "aws_api_gateway_rest_api.test",
+				ImportState:             true,
+				ImportStateVerify:       true,
+				ImportStateVerifyIgnore: []string{"body"},
+			},
+			{
+				Config: testAccAWSAPIGatewayRestAPIUpdateConfigOpenAPIBasePathIgnore,
+				Check: resource.ComposeTestCheckFunc(
+					testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayRestAPIExists("aws_api_gateway_rest_api.test", &conf),
+					testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayRestAPINameAttribute(&conf, "test"),
+					testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayRestAPIRoutes(&conf, []string{"/", "/update"}),
+				),
+			},
+		},
+	})
+}
+
+func TestAccAWSAPIGatewayRestApi_openapi_body_base_path_prepend(t *testing.T) {
+	var conf apigateway.RestApi
+
+	resource.ParallelTest(t, resource.TestCase{
+		PreCheck:     func() { testAccPreCheck(t) },
+		Providers:    testAccProviders,
+		CheckDestroy: testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayRestAPIDestroy,
+		Steps: []resource.TestStep{
+			{
+				Config: testAccAWSAPIGatewayRestAPIConfigOpenAPIBasePathPrepend,
+				Check: resource.ComposeTestCheckFunc(
+					testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayRestAPIExists("aws_api_gateway_rest_api.test", &conf),
+					testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayRestAPIRoutes(&conf, []string{"/", "/foo/bar/baz/test"}),
+				),
+			},
+			{
+				ResourceName:            "aws_api_gateway_rest_api.test",
+				ImportState:             true,
+				ImportStateVerify:       true,
+				ImportStateVerifyIgnore: []string{"body"},
+			},
+			{
+				Config: testAccAWSAPIGatewayRestAPIUpdateConfigOpenAPIBasePathPrepend,
+				Check: resource.ComposeTestCheckFunc(
+					testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayRestAPIExists("aws_api_gateway_rest_api.test", &conf),
+					testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayRestAPINameAttribute(&conf, "test"),
+					testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayRestAPIRoutes(&conf, []string{"/", "/foo/bar/baz/update"}),
+				),
+			},
+		},
+	})
+}
+
+func TestAccAWSAPIGatewayRestApi_openapi_body_base_path_split(t *testing.T) {
+	var conf apigateway.RestApi
+
+	resource.ParallelTest(t, resource.TestCase{
+		PreCheck:     func() { testAccPreCheck(t) },
+		Providers:    testAccProviders,
+		CheckDestroy: testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayRestAPIDestroy,
+		Steps: []resource.TestStep{
+			{
+				Config: testAccAWSAPIGatewayRestAPIConfigOpenAPIBasePathSplit,
+				Check: resource.ComposeTestCheckFunc(
+					testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayRestAPIExists("aws_api_gateway_rest_api.test", &conf),
+					testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayRestAPIRoutes(&conf, []string{"/", "/bar/baz/test"}),
+				),
+			},
+			{
+				ResourceName:            "aws_api_gateway_rest_api.test",
+				ImportState:             true,
+				ImportStateVerify:       true,
+				ImportStateVerifyIgnore: []string{"body"},
+			},
+			{
+				Config: testAccAWSAPIGatewayRestAPIUpdateConfigOpenAPIBasePathSplit,
+				Check: resource.ComposeTestCheckFunc(
+					testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayRestAPIExists("aws_api_gateway_rest_api.test", &conf),
+					testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayRestAPINameAttribute(&conf, "test"),
+					testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayRestAPIRoutes(&conf, []string{"/", "/bar/baz/update"}),
+				),
+			},
+		},
+	})
+}
+
 func testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayRestAPINameAttribute(conf *apigateway.RestApi, name string) resource.TestCheckFunc {
 	return func(s *terraform.State) error {
 		if *conf.Name != name {
@@ -949,7 +1048,7 @@ resource "aws_api_gateway_rest_api" "test" {
   "info": {
     "title": "%s",
     "version": "2017-04-20T04:08:08Z"
-  },
+	},
   "schemes": [
     "https"
   ],
@@ -1020,3 +1119,246 @@ EOF
 }
 `, rName, rName)
 }
+
+const testAccAWSAPIGatewayRestAPIConfigOpenAPIBasePathIgnore = `
+resource "aws_api_gateway_rest_api" "test" {
+  name = "test"
+  body_base_path = "ignore"
+  body = <<EOF
+{
+  "swagger": "2.0",
+  "info": {
+    "title": "test",
+    "version": "2017-04-20T04:08:08Z"
+	},
+	"basePath": "/foo/bar/baz",
+  "schemes": [
+    "https"
+  ],
+  "paths": {
+    "/test": {
+      "get": {
+        "responses": {
+          "200": {
+            "description": "200 response"
+          }
+        },
+        "x-amazon-apigateway-integration": {
+          "type": "HTTP",
+          "uri": "https://www.google.de",
+          "httpMethod": "GET",
+          "responses": {
+            "default": {
+              "statusCode": 200
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+EOF
+}
+`
+
+const testAccAWSAPIGatewayRestAPIUpdateConfigOpenAPIBasePathIgnore = `
+resource "aws_api_gateway_rest_api" "test" {
+  name = "test"
+	body_base_path = "ignore"
+	body = <<EOF
+{
+  "swagger": "2.0",
+  "info": {
+    "title": "test",
+    "version": "2017-04-20T04:08:08Z"
+  },
+  "schemes": [
+    "https"
+  ],
+  "paths": {
+    "/update": {
+      "get": {
+        "responses": {
+          "200": {
+            "description": "200 response"
+          }
+        },
+        "x-amazon-apigateway-integration": {
+          "type": "HTTP",
+          "uri": "https://www.google.de",
+          "httpMethod": "GET",
+          "responses": {
+            "default": {
+              "statusCode": 200
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+EOF
+}
+`
+
+const testAccAWSAPIGatewayRestAPIConfigOpenAPIBasePathPrepend = `
+resource "aws_api_gateway_rest_api" "test" {
+  name = "test"
+  body_base_path = "prepend"
+  body = <<EOF
+{
+  "swagger": "2.0",
+  "info": {
+    "title": "test",
+    "version": "2017-04-20T04:08:08Z"
+	},
+	"basePath": "/foo/bar/baz",
+  "schemes": [
+    "https"
+  ],
+  "paths": {
+    "/test": {
+      "get": {
+        "responses": {
+          "200": {
+            "description": "200 response"
+          }
+        },
+        "x-amazon-apigateway-integration": {
+          "type": "HTTP",
+          "uri": "https://www.google.de",
+          "httpMethod": "GET",
+          "responses": {
+            "default": {
+              "statusCode": 200
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+EOF
+}
+`
+
+const testAccAWSAPIGatewayRestAPIUpdateConfigOpenAPIBasePathPrepend = `
+resource "aws_api_gateway_rest_api" "test" {
+  name = "test"
+	body_base_path = "prepend"
+	body = <<EOF
+{
+  "swagger": "2.0",
+  "info": {
+    "title": "test",
+    "version": "2017-04-20T04:08:08Z"
+  },
+  "schemes": [
+    "https"
+  ],
+  "paths": {
+    "/update": {
+      "get": {
+        "responses": {
+          "200": {
+            "description": "200 response"
+          }
+        },
+        "x-amazon-apigateway-integration": {
+          "type": "HTTP",
+          "uri": "https://www.google.de",
+          "httpMethod": "GET",
+          "responses": {
+            "default": {
+              "statusCode": 200
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+EOF
+}
+`
+
+const testAccAWSAPIGatewayRestAPIConfigOpenAPIBasePathSplit = `
+resource "aws_api_gateway_rest_api" "test" {
+  name = "test"
+  body_base_path = "split"
+  body = <<EOF
+{
+  "swagger": "2.0",
+  "info": {
+    "title": "test",
+    "version": "2017-04-20T04:08:08Z"
+	},
+	"basePath": "/foo/bar/baz",
+  "schemes": [
+    "https"
+  ],
+  "paths": {
+    "/test": {
+      "get": {
+        "responses": {
+          "200": {
+            "description": "200 response"
+          }
+        },
+        "x-amazon-apigateway-integration": {
+          "type": "HTTP",
+          "uri": "https://www.google.de",
+          "httpMethod": "GET",
+          "responses": {
+            "default": {
+              "statusCode": 200
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+EOF
+}
+`
+
+const testAccAWSAPIGatewayRestAPIUpdateConfigOpenAPIBasePathSplit = `
+resource "aws_api_gateway_rest_api" "test" {
+  name = "test"
+	body_base_path = "split"
+	body = <<EOF
+{
+  "swagger": "2.0",
+  "info": {
+    "title": "test",
+    "version": "2017-04-20T04:08:08Z"
+  },
+  "schemes": [
+    "https"
+  ],
+  "paths": {
+    "/update": {
+      "get": {
+        "responses": {
+          "200": {
+            "description": "200 response"
+          }
+        },
+        "x-amazon-apigateway-integration": {
+          "type": "HTTP",
+          "uri": "https://www.google.de",
+          "httpMethod": "GET",
+          "responses": {
+            "default": {
+              "statusCode": 200
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+EOF
+}
+`
diff --git a/website/docs/r/api_gateway_rest_api.html.markdown b/website/docs/r/api_gateway_rest_api.html.markdown
index 46cb85b9664..5ba0e733637 100644
--- a/website/docs/r/api_gateway_rest_api.html.markdown
+++ b/website/docs/r/api_gateway_rest_api.html.markdown
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ The following arguments are supported:
 * `binary_media_types` - (Optional) The list of binary media types supported by the RestApi. By default, the RestApi supports only UTF-8-encoded text payloads.
 * `minimum_compression_size` - (Optional) Minimum response size to compress for the REST API. Integer between -1 and 10485760 (10MB). Setting a value greater than -1 will enable compression, -1 disables compression (default).
 * `body` - (Optional) An OpenAPI specification that defines the set of routes and integrations to create as part of the REST API.
+* `body_base_path` - (Optional) Together with OpenAPI specification in `body`, instructs how to interpret the `basePath` field. Defined below.
 * `policy` - (Optional) JSON formatted policy document that controls access to the API Gateway. For more information about building AWS IAM policy documents with Terraform, see the [AWS IAM Policy Document Guide](https://learn.hashicorp.com/terraform/aws/iam-policy). Terraform will only perform drift detection of its value when present in a configuration. It is recommended to use the [`aws_api_gateway_rest_api_policy` resource](/docs/providers/aws/r/api_gateway_rest_api_policy.html) instead.
 * `api_key_source` - (Optional) The source of the API key for requests. Valid values are HEADER (default) and AUTHORIZER.
 * `tags` - (Optional) Key-value map of resource tags
@@ -65,6 +66,10 @@ __Note__: If the `body` argument is provided, the OpenAPI specification will be
 * `types` - (Required) A list of endpoint types. This resource currently only supports managing a single value. Valid values: `EDGE`, `REGIONAL` or `PRIVATE`. If unspecified, defaults to `EDGE`. Must be declared as `REGIONAL` in non-Commercial partitions. Refer to the [documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/create-regional-api.html) for more information on the difference between edge-optimized and regional APIs.
 * `vpc_endpoint_ids` - (Optional) A list of VPC Endpoint Ids. It is only supported for PRIVATE endpoint type.
 
+### body_base_path
+
+* `types` - (Required) One of `ignore` (default), `prepend` or `split`. Refer to the [documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/apigateway/import-rest-api.html)
+
 ## Attributes Reference
 
 In addition to all arguments above, the following attributes are exported: