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Little River - tributary of the Black (Ouachita) River; Loggy Bayou; Mermentau River; Mississippi River; Natalbany River; New River; Old River (Natchitoches Parish) Old River (Louisiana), in Pointe Coupee and West Feliciana parishes; Old River (Sabine River tributary) Ouachita River; Ouiski Chitto Creek; Pass Manchac; Pearl River; Ponchatoula ...
The Atchafalaya River (/ ə ˌ tʃ æ f. ə ˈ l aɪ. ə / [2] French: La Rivière Atchafalaya, Spanish: Río Atchafalaya) is a 137-mile-long (220 km) [3] distributary of the Mississippi River and Red River in south central Louisiana in the United States. It flows south, just west of the Mississippi River, [4] and is the fifth largest river in ...
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]
The water flows in from the lower section of the image and passes on both sides of the large island in the center. River bifurcation (from Latin: furca, fork) occurs when a river (a bifurcating river) flowing in a single channel separates into two or more separate streams (called distributaries) which then continue downstream.
The Ouachita River (/ ˈ w ɑː ʃ ɪ t ɑː / WAH-shi-tah) is a 605-mile-long (974 km) [2] river that runs south and east through the U.S. states of Arkansas and Louisiana, joining the Tensas River to form the Black River near Jonesville, Louisiana.
Davis Pond is restoring wetlands in the upper Barataria Basin on the west side of the Mississippi River near Luling, in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, while Caernarvon delivers sediments and ...
The Louisiana Natural and Scenic Rivers System was established in 1970, ... Little River - 081601 and 081602; Pearl Creek - 110202; Saline Bayou ...
The Bogue Falaya, also known as the Bogue Falaya River, is a 28-mile-long (45 km) [1] river in southeastern Louisiana in the United States. [2] It is a tributary of the Tchefuncte River, which flows to Lake Pontchartrain. The river flows through an area of mixed pine-hardwood and bottomland hardwood forests on the Gulf Coastal Plain. [3]