Do rivers in the southern hemisphere flow north?

Answer 1

No, the St. Johns River in Florida runs south to north. no! rivers run from their source ie mountains to an ocean or swamp or lake. to give an example, the nile river runs from south to north and the orange river(namibia and South Africa) flows from east to west...

Rivers that aren't "north of the equator running south":

Athabasca Alberta, Canada, 765 miles

Bann Northern Ireland

Bighorn Wyoming and Montana, USA, 336 miles

Cauca Colombia, 597 miles

Deschutes Oregon, USA, 250 miles

Eel Northern California, USA, 78 miles

Erne Ireland and Northern Ireland, 60 miles

Essequibo Guyana, 600 miles

Genesee New York, USA, 144 miles

Jordan Utah, USA, 45 miles

Lena Russian Federation, 2735 miles

Little Bighorn, Wyoming and Montana, USA, 80 miles

Magdalena Colombia, 1062 miles

Mojave Southern California, USA, 100 miles

Monongahela Eastern USA, 128 miles

New Virginia and West Virginia, USA, 255 miles

Niagara Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, 39 miles.

Nile Africa, 4150 miles

Ob Russian Federation, 2289 miles

Oswego New York, USA, 24 miles

Otter Creek Vermont, USA, 75 miles

Pend Oreille Washington, USA, 62 miles

Red Minnesota, North Dakota, USA (into Canada), 318 miles

Richelieu Quebec, Canada, 208 miles

Saginaw Michigan, USA, 20 miles.

Saint Johns Florida, USA, 275 miles

San Pedro Mexico (into Arizona), 142 miles

Shennandoah Virginia and West Virginia, USA, 55 miles

Wilamette Oregon, USA, 188 miles

Wallkill New Jersey, USA, length unknown

Yenisey Russian Federation, 2548 miles

Youghiogheny Eastern USA, 151 miles

Answer 2

The bottom line is this; rivers flow down. They flow from a point of higher elevation to a point of lower elevation, driven by gravity. While we are used to many rivers flowing from north to south, this has nothing to do with the hemisphere or compass.

I copy and pasted the following from Wikipedia.

"A common misconception is that most, or even all, rivers flow from north to south.] Rivers in fact flow downhill regardless of compass direction.

Sometimes downhill is from north to south, but equally it can be from south to north, and usually is a complex meandering path involving all directions of the compass.

Three of the ten longest rivers in the world-the Nile, Yenisei, and Ob-flow north, as do other major rivers such as the Rhine, Mackenzie, and Nelson."

See the link below for more information

Answer 3

No. West of the Sierra Nevada mountains, rivers generally run west, and east of the Appalachian mountains, rivers generally run east. Between those mountain ranges, most rivers run southeast or southwest, mostly draining (eventually) through the Mississippi River. (The Rio Grande is the only major exception I can think of. )

Answer 4

Interestingly, the vast majority of water runs west to east, from the Andes Mountains down through the rainforest of Brazil and into the Atlantic Ocean.