How to get your rivers in the right place

[Jeff_Wilson63]

The statement also implies that two separate bits of water will always follow the same path. This is generally true. So when two rivers meet they BOTH then travel in the SAME direction. I.e. rivers do not spontaneously fork or split into two and go different ways around an obstacle. Only in a situation where one path cannot take the combined flow from the source does the water then split into different routes. So rivers always join up and do not split up.

I'm a new member, and I apologize if this subject has been beaten to death. I get frustrated myself with rivers that split for no apparent reason. However, we should keep in mind the example of the lower Ganges ( http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&...6,1.299133&z=9 ), and that rivers do split sometimes.

This example is probably more useful for retconning existing maps than creating new ones.