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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.
River Basins in continental Spain. This is an incomplete list of rivers that are at least partially in Spain. The rivers flowing into the sea are sorted along the coast. Rivers flowing into other rivers are listed by the rivers they flow into.
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 ...
Along the route of central Florida's Withlacoochee River is the 46-mile-long (74 km) Withlacoochee State Trail, the longest paved rail trail in Florida; [2] the Cypress Lake Preserve, a 324-acre (1.31 km 2) park with approximately 600 feet (180 m) of frontage; [3] and Nobleton Wayside Park, a 2-acre (8,100 m 2) park in Nobleton that includes a ...
The Indian River is a 121-mile (195 km) long [1] brackish-water lagoon on Florida's eastern Atlantic coast. [2] It is part of the Indian River Lagoon system, which in turn forms part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. It was originally called Río de Ais by the Spanish, after the Ais tribe who lived along the east coast of what is now Florida.
The Perdido River, also historically known as Rio Perdido or by its native name of Cassaba, [1] [2] is a 65.4-mile-long (105.3 km) [3] river in the U.S. states of Alabama and Florida; the Perdido, a designated Outstanding Florida Waters river, forms part of the boundary between the two states along nearly its entire length and drains into the Gulf of Mexico.
The Alafia River is 25 miles (40 km) long, with a watershed of 335 square miles (870 km 2) [4] in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States, flowing into Tampa Bay. The watershed contains ten named lakes and ponds , and 29 named rivers , streams and canals .