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Atchafalaya Basin. The Atchafalaya Basin, or Atchafalaya Swamp ( / əˌtʃæfəˈlaɪə /; Louisiana French: Atchafalaya, [atʃafalaˈja] ), is the largest wetland and swamp in the United States. Located in south central Louisiana, it is a combination of wetlands and river delta area where the Atchafalaya River and the Gulf of Mexico converge.
Bayou Teche (Louisiana French: Bayou Têche) is a 125-mile-long (201 km) waterway in south central Louisiana in the United States. Bayou Teche was the Mississippi River 's main course when it developed a delta about 2,800 to 4,500 years ago.
70714, 70739, 70770, 70791, 70818, 70837. Area code. 225. FIPS code. 22-13960. Website. centralgov .com. Central is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, third largest city in East Baton Rouge Parish, and part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area. Central had a 2020 census population of 29,565.
Bayou Bienvenue is a 12.1-mile-long (19.5 km) [1] bayou and "ghost swamp" [2] in southeastern Louisiana. It runs along the political border between Orleans Parish and St. Bernard Parish to the east of New Orleans. The Bayou Bienvenue Wetlands Triangle viewing platform in the Lower Ninth Ward provides expansive views of the bayou and also serves ...
Length. 103 miles (166 km) Castor Creek or Bayou Castor is a 103-mile-long (166 km) [1] tributary of the Little River in north-central Louisiana in the United States. [2] Via the Little, Ouachita and Red rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River . Castor Creek or Bayou Castor flows from a spring in northern Jackson Parish.
Bayou Bartholomew is the longest bayou in the world, meandering approximately 364 miles (586 km) between the U.S. states of Arkansas and Louisiana.. 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 ...
The endangered red-cockaded woodpecker and the threatened Louisiana black bear are found on Upper Ouachita NWR. Other wildlife species that call the refuge home include alligators, deer, turkey, squirrels, bald eagles and beaver. Upper Ouachita NWR is one of the four refuges managed in the North Louisiana Refuge Complex .
Bayou Lafourche ( / ləˈfuːʃ / lə-FOOSH [1] ), originally called Chetimachas River [2] or La Fourche des Chetimaches, [3] (the fork of the Chitimacha ), is a 106-mile-long (171 km) [4] bayou in southeastern Louisiana, United States, that flows into the Gulf of Mexico. The bayou is flanked by Louisiana Highway 1 on the west and Louisiana ...