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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
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."
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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. )
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.
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When was Where the Rivers Flow North created?
Where the Rivers Flow North was created in 1978.
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Which way do surface currents in the southern hemisphere flow?
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3 rivers that flow into the north sea?
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because it doesn't
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