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The St. Johns River (Spanish: Río San Juan) is the longest river in the U.S. state of Florida and is the most significant one for commercial and recreational use. [note 1] At 310 miles (500 km) long, it flows north and winds through or borders 12 counties.
This is a list of streams and rivers in the U.S. state of Florida.With one exception, the streams and rivers of Florida all originate on the Coastal plain.That exception is the Apalachicola River, which is formed by the merger of the Chattahoochee River, which originates in the Appalachian Mountains, and the Flint River, which originates in the Piedmont.
Black Creek is a tributary of the St. Johns River in Clay County, Florida.It is formed by the confluence of North Fork Black Creek and South Fork Black Creek. North Fork Black Creek originates as an outflow from Kingsley Lake and flows north and then southeast, meeting South Fork Black Creek on the east side of MIddleburg.
The mouth of the Ebro in the Ebro Delta. the River Aragón. Ebro (ms · 910 km; 570 mi) . Híjar [] (r · 28 km; 17 mi; aside from joining the Ebro near Reinosa, the upstream traditional source of the very same Ebro in Fontibre han been recently redescribed as a water spring of the Híjar) [2]
Three major bridges cross the Matanzas River: the Bridge of Lions and the Mickler-O'Connell Bridge carrying Florida State Road 312 between St. Augustine and Anastasia Island, and the Crescent Beach Bridge (Verle Allen Pope Bridge) carrying State Road 206 across the river to Crescent Beach. The Matanzas River was named by Spanish forces for a ...
Sign containing the name. The Spanish River is a former fresh-water stream which once flowed through Boca Raton, Florida.It was originally known, erroneously, as "Boca Raton's Lagoon" or "Lake Boca Ratones", a name first used in 1823—Boca Raton apparently having been originally appended to an inlet near Biscayne Bay—and later as the "Little Hillsboro", but settlers, supposing it to have ...
The Econlockhatchee River (Econ River for short) is an 54.5-mile-long (87.7 km) [4] north-flowing blackwater tributary of the St. Johns River. The Econ River flows through Osceola, Orange, and Seminole counties in Central Florida, just east of the Orlando Metropolitan Area (east of State Road 417). It is a designated Outstanding Florida Waters. [3]
Econfina Creek flows through a hilly limestone karst landscape, and there are springs, sinkholes, caves and rock outcrops along the river. One cave by the river is the only known location for a species of snail ( Dasyscias franzi ) that feeds on wood carried into the cave by beavers.