Taken from Wikipedia:Skyleak wrote:Most rivers in the world flow South, it's unusual to see it flowing theoretically "up"PhilosophiX wrote:What's so funny about that?Skyleak wrote:I still laugh at the water animation flowing north/ NE. Guess it's part of the Fantasy lol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River
A misconception, is that most, or even all, rivers flow from north to south.[3][4] Rivers in fact flow down gradient irrespective of direction, often in a complex meandering path involving all directions of the compass.[5][6][7]
As it happens, few major rivers in the continental US flow north, as most of the country is located in the watershed of the Pacific or Atlantic oceans or the Gulf of Mexico, with very few rivers flowing northward toward the Arctic Ocean, Great Lakes, or Hudson Bay. However, thousands of north-flowing rivers exist elsewhere, including such major watercourses as the Nile, Mackenzie, Rhine, Yenisei, Nelson, and Lena. Four of the ten longest river systems of the world flow mainly north.
Studying the flows of rivers is one aspect of hydrology.[8]