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Atchafalaya Basin. The wetlands of Louisiana are water-saturated coastal and swamp regions of southern Louisiana, often called "Bayou".. The Louisiana coastal zone stretches from the border of Texas to the Mississippi line [1] and comprises two wetland-dominated ecosystems, the Deltaic Plain of the Mississippi River (unit 1, 2, and 3) and the closely linked Chenier Plain (unit 4). [2]
Bayou Corne in Louisiana, October 2010 In usage in the Southern United States , a bayou ( / ˈ b aɪ . uː , ˈ b aɪ . oʊ / ) [ 1 ] is a body of water typically found in a flat, low-lying area. It may refer to an extremely slow-moving stream, river (often with a poorly defined shoreline), marshy lake, wetland, or creek.
Bayou Bartholomew is the longest bayou in the world, [1] meandering approximately 364 miles (586 km) in the U.S. states of Arkansas and Louisiana. [2]It starts northwest of the city of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, in the Hardin community, winds through parts of Jefferson, Lincoln, Desha, Drew, Chicot, and Ashley counties in Arkansas, and Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, and eventually enters the Ouachita ...
Pages in category "Wetlands and bayous of Louisiana" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. ... Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge;
Red River. Black River. Little River. Castor Creek; Dugdemona River; Tensas River. Bayou Macon; Ouachita River. Boeuf River. Bayou Bonne Idee; Bayou Lafourche (Boeuf River tributary)
Bayou Manchac is an 18-mile-long (29 km) [1] bayou in southeast Louisiana, USA. First called the Iberville River ("rivière d'Iberville") by its French discoverers, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] the bayou was once a very important waterway linking the Mississippi River (west end) to the Amite River (east end).
The Vermilion River (or the Bayou Vermilion, French: Rivière Vermilion) is a 70.0-mile-long (112.7 km) [2] bayou in southern Louisiana in the United States.It is formed on the common boundary of Lafayette and St. Martin parishes by a confluence of small bayous flowing from St. Landry Parish, and flows generally southward through Lafayette and Vermilion parishes, past the cities of Lafayette ...
The bayou is flanked by Louisiana Highway 1 on the west and Louisiana Highway 308 on the east, and is known as "the longest Main Street in the world." [5] It flows through parts of Ascension, Assumption, and Lafourche parishes. Today, approximately 300,000 Louisiana residents drink water drawn from the bayou. [6]