The longest subterranean river in the world is the Sistema Sac Actun cave system in Mexico.
[5][6] Some fish (colloquially known as cavefish) and other troglobite organisms are adapted to life in subterranean rivers and lakes.
Dante Alighieri, in his Inferno, included the Acheron, Phlegethon, and Styx as rivers within his subterranean Hell.
The river Alph, running "Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea" is central to the poem Kubla Khan, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The characters in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth encounter a subterranean river: "Hans was not mistaken," he said.