The Jordan River ( Latin: Jordanis fluvius ) is a canceled constellation of the northern hemisphere of the sky. Proposed by Plantius in the publication of the heavenly atlas of 1612 . The Jordan River constellation began south of the Ursa Major in the area of the modern Hounds of Dogs , flowed through the Small Leo and the Lynx and ended in the area of the constellation Giraffe .
The constellation was used by Barch , who published it in his celestial maps of 1642 . He associated it with the biblical river washing the garden of Eden .
The constellation did not find recognition among astronomers and was forgotten.