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The Everglades, sometimes called the "river of grass", is a very wide and shallow river that originates from Lake Okeechobee. Most of Florida's streams and rivers drain into the Gulf of Mexico . Drainage on the east coast of Florida is dominated by the St. Johns River , which, with the swamps that form its headwaters, extends parallel to the ...
The consistent Everglades flooding is fed by the extensive Kissimmee, Caloosahatchee, Miami, Myakka, and Peace Rivers in central Florida. The Kissimmee River is a broad floodplain that empties directly into Lake Okeechobee, which at 730 square miles (1,900 km 2) with an average depth of 9 feet (2.7 m), is a vast but shallow lake. [23]
in Category:Rivers of Florida by county. It should hold all the pages in the county-level categories, and may hold other pages such as lists.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Rivers of Florida. It includes rivers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of ...
Springs are identified by type: river rise (RR) is where a river emerges after flowing underground for a distance; a single spring (SS) has one underground source, but may flow through multiple rock fissures; a group spring (GS) has multiple underground sources; a sink (SK) is an opening in the Earth's surface that occurs from karst processes ...
The Apalachicola River / æ p əl æ tʃ ɪ ˈ k oʊ l ə / is a river, approximately 160 miles (260 km) long, in the state of Florida.The river's large watershed, known as the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee and Flint (ACF) River Basin, drains an area of approximately 19,500 square miles (50,500 km 2) into the Gulf of Mexico.
Florida may be known for its sugar-sand beaches, but many lakes and rivers provide fresh water for residents of the Sunshine State. These residents include alligators – thousands of them. While ...
List of drainage basins by area (including rivers, lakes, and endorheic basins); List of largest unfragmented rivers; List of longest undammed rivers; List of river name etymologies