This is my first world map so I just need to know if said rivers are realistically flowing from point to point. And if you have other tips those would be helpful as well. Rivers flow from the mountains to the ocean. If you can't see the lines going across the map they are the rivers I couldn't get a better picture so this is all I have got. 
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4$\begingroup$ It's really hard to make some sense out of a pencil drawing with nothing else to provide clues $\endgroup$– L.Dutch ♦Oct 26, 2021 at 16:57
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$\begingroup$ my apoligez i shall update $\endgroup$– Erik SanchezOct 26, 2021 at 17:02
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$\begingroup$ When thinking about rivers, the most important thing to consider is land height around and along them. You should tell/draw about this first if you update your question :). $\endgroup$– TortlienaOct 26, 2021 at 23:02
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$\begingroup$ Add bigger picture, this is too small to see anything. The quality of the photo seems ok, just the size when you click on it is tiny. $\endgroup$– ArchelaosOct 27, 2021 at 11:10
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Rivers flow from high to low. They start as many small streams, flowing downhill, which gradually combine together into larger streams and then rivers, and then finally massive rivers that empty out into a large body of water. Look up "river basin" on Wikipedia, and find some river basin maps to see how this works:
https://www.grasshoppergeography.com/River-Maps/i-3DRXqNc/A
You have to know the topography of a region in order to guess how the rivers will flow. Then, tracing the path of any given stream/river is easy: it follows the steepest downhill path until it hits another stream/river or lake/ocean. This path is generally perpendicular to the axis of the nearest hill/mountain range. For example, in the USA everything on the east of the Rocky Mountains stays east and eventually drains to the Mississippi River, and everything west of the Rocky Mountains stays west.
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Rivers usually don't just stop.
Ok, the Okavango delta. But usually rivers get to the ocean. You have some rivers midcontinent that just stop. One of them also has an unusual triangle. That does not look like a natural river.
Those two midcontinent ones would join together right by the pyramid. They would pour into the river that starts at the pyramid. That is why there is a pyramid there - the confluence of large rivers is a fine place to site a powerful city.
That pyramid river would enter the sea at the most inland extent of the sound. It would not enter at the side of the sound and leave the sound looking the way it does.
OK here is your map with my suggestions in red. ? is because I dont get the triangle. Check is rivers I liked. I circled a river in the northern island because it splits in two near the ocean. Some rivers do that right at the end because they ramify into a river delta with several arms. They are swampy places. Check out the rivers in Bangladesh. You have some deep sounds where the ocean comes way inland to a point. Usually there will be a river feeding into the point - I moved your one river to go into the ocean at the point of the nearby sound. Those other big sounds you have would probably have their own rivers.
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$\begingroup$ thanks for the informating if you would be so kind as to maybe give a example on how they would look by art or other means if you want of course just so i could get a idea of what you mean.and if i hear you correctly the 2 indland rivers would connect to the lower on and join the ocean correct $\endgroup$ Oct 27, 2021 at 1:08
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1$\begingroup$ if you really want to keep that triangle then you can make it a lake. $\endgroup$ Oct 27, 2021 at 20:16
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$\begingroup$ @PostlimFort - good idea. There can be a dam. There are pyramid builders after all. They should be equal to a dam. $\endgroup$– WillkOct 27, 2021 at 20:49
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$\begingroup$ I think that is supposed to be a river delta where the river enters a large body of water.(the top forked river). The triangle is obviously a lake with two outflows, or much more likely, two long and one short inflow leading to an inland sea with no outflows. $\endgroup$– PcManNov 11, 2021 at 22:15
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$\begingroup$ those arnt pyramids but mountin ranges $\endgroup$ May 9, 2022 at 22:16
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I made this crude picture to help you on your way. The basic idea is that all rivers flow from mountains/hills to the ocean. On their way to the ocean they often join but never split. If a river runs parallel to a coast then that indicates but not necessitates that the coast has a lot of cliffs. The amount of water and the number of significant rivers depends on the amount of rainfall. In the picture I made I just assumed equal rainfall all over. But that wouldn't happen in a real natural world.
Exceptions are possible but they are always rare, noteworthy, and have clear causes.
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It is almost impossible for a river to split into two. The opposite can happen, with two rivers merging, but not the other way around.
The reason is that if one branch is even a tiny bit bigger than the other, it will erode its bed faster than the smaller branch. As the channel enlarges it will "steal" water from the other, reducing the rate that the smaller cuts its channel, until only one branch is left.
The exception occurs in river deltas. Here, the water slows down, dumping suspended sediment into the river bed, raising the bed until the main channel "falls off" the shallower channel. This has happened repeatedly in the Mississippi River Delta, and in fact a great deal of effort and expense has been invested in preventing the Mississippi from switching over to the Atchafalaya on the delta.
So those "triangular" river networks need a lot of justification.
answered Oct 27, 2021 at 22:58