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One of the original 19 parishes. Named for local river rapids (French: rapides) 126,260: 1,362 sq mi (3,528 km 2) Red River Parish: 081: Coushatta: 1871: from parts of Bienville Parish, Bossier Parish, Caddo Parish and Natchitoches Parish. Named for the Red River, which is part of the Mississippi River watershed: 7,356: 402 sq mi (1,041 km 2 ...
Ascension Parish, sometimes included as part of the River Parishes sub-region, is home to the River Parishes Community College, chartered in 1997. The area contains many architecturally significant historic plantation houses that are included among Louisiana's listings in the National Register of Historic Places. The three traditional parishes ...
The lake receives fresh water from four river systems: Blind River, Amite River, Tickfaw River, and the Natalbany River. The average freshwater input to Lake Maurepas from these rivers and other minor terrestrial sources is less than 3,400 cubic feet per second (96 m 3 /s) (CWPPRA Environmental Workgroup, 2001). To the north-east, Lake Maurepas ...
False River has often held the state record for the largest bass caught, and has the largest number of striped bass per acre in the state. Between 1974 and 1981, more than 265,000 striped bass fingerlings were released into the lake which covers approximately 3,212 acres (13.00 km 2). [2]
When at full reservoir level, Lake Claiborne has a surface area of 6,400 acres (2,590 ha). [37] Lake D'Arbonne State Park: Union Parish: 655 acres (265 ha) [38] 1967 [39] Lake D'Arbonne State Park offers disc golf. The course is located near the group camp. [38] Lake Fausse Pointe State Park: Iberia and St. Martin parishes: 6,000 acres (2,428 ...
Map of the United States with Louisiana highlighted. Louisiana is a state located in the Southern United States.According to the 2020 United States census, Louisiana is the 25th most populous state with 4,657,757 inhabitants and the 33rd largest by land area spanning 43,203.90 square miles (111,897.6 km 2) of land. [1]
In descending order of area, the lake is located in parts of six Louisiana parishes: St. Tammany, Orleans, Jefferson, St. John the Baptist, St. Charles, and Tangipahoa. The water boundaries were defined in 1979 (see list of parishes in Louisiana).
This is because Louisiana is the drainage gateway to the Gulf of Mexico for the Lower Mississippi Regional Watershed. The Lower Mississippi Regional Watershed drains more than 24 million acres (97,000 km 2) in seven states from southern Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico. Hence the wetlands of this area are important at the national scale. [9]