Rivers of Louisiana Rivers of Louisiana The Atchafalaya River is a distributary of the Mississippi and Red rivers, approximately 170 mi (270 km) long, in south central Louisiana in the United States. It is navigable and provides a significant industrial shipping channel for the state of Louisiana, as well as the cultural heart of the Cajun Country. The maintenance of the river as a navigable channel of the Mississippi has been a significant project of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for over a century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Atchafalaya River"
The Bayou Teche is a 125-mile long waterway of great cultural significance in south central Louisiana. Bayou Teche was the Mississippi River's main course when it developed a delta about, 2,800 to 4,500 years ago. Through a natural process known as deltaic switching the river's deposits of silt and sediment causes the Mississippi to change its course every thousand years or so. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bayou Teche"
The Boeuf River is a river in the United States. Its name comes from the French word boeuf, which means " ox." The river originates in Arkansas and flows southeast into Louisiana where if joins the Ouachita River. ...more on Wikipedia about "Boeuf River"
The Calcasieu River (KAL-kuh-shoo) is a river on the Gulf Coast of southwestern Louisiana, U.S.A.. Approximately 200 miles (320 km) long, it drains a largely rural area of forests and bayou country, meandering southward to the Gulf of Mexico. The name "Calcasieu" comes from the Native American Atakapa language katkosh, for Eagle, and yok, to cry. ...more on Wikipedia about "Calcasieu River"
This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of Louisiana ...more on Wikipedia about "List of Louisiana rivers"
The Ouachita River is a 605 mile long river that runs through the US states of Arkansas and Louisiana. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ouachita River"
The Pearl River is a river in the southern United States. It forms in Neshoba County, Mississippi from the confluence of several smaller streams about twelve miles northeast of Philadelphia, Mississippi. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pearl River (Mississippi-Louisiana)" Visit again http://www.shortopedia.com
The Red River is one of several rivers with that name, and of two rivers with that name in the United States. It rises in two branches (forks) in the Texas Panhandle and flows east along the border of Texas and Oklahoma, and briefly between Texas and Arkansas. At Fulton, Arkansas, the river turns south into Louisiana to empty into the Atchafalaya and Mississippi Rivers. The total length of this journey is 1360 miles (2189 km). The river gains its name from the red- clay farmland of its watershed. Since 1943 the Red River has been dammed by Denison Dam to form Lake Texoma, a very large reservoir of 89,000 acres (360 km²), some 70 miles (113 km) north of Dallas. Other reservoirs serve as flood control on the river's tributaries. ...more on Wikipedia about "Red River (Mississippi watershed)"
The Sabine River is a river, 555 miles (893 km) long, in the U.S. states of Texas and Louisiana. In its lower course, it forms part of the boundary between the two states and empties into the Gulf of Mexico. The river formed part of the United States- Mexican international boundary during the early 19th century. The upper reaches of the river flow through the prairie country of northeast Texas. Along much of its lower reaches, it flows through pine forests along the Texas-Louisiana border, and the bayou country near the Gulf Coast. The river drains an area of 9,756 square miles (25,270 km²), of which 7,426 square miles (19,230 km²) is in Texas and the remainder in Louisiana. It flows through an area of abundant rainfall and discharges the largest volume of any river in Texas. The name Sabine ( Sp: Río de Sabinas) comes from the Spanish word for cypress, in reference to the extensive growth of such trees (here Bald cypresses) along the lower river. The river flows through an important petroleum-producing region, and the lower river near the Gulf is among the most industrialized areas of the southeastern United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sabine River (Texas-Louisiana)"
The Tchefuncte River (chuh-FUNK-tuh) is a tributary of Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana in the United States. It is about 40 mi (64 km) long. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tchefuncte River"
The Tensas River is a river in Louisiana in the United States. The river begins in East Carroll parish in the north-east corner of the state and runs roughly south-west for 400km more or less in parallel with the Ouachita River. The two rivers merge in Jonesville, Catahoula parish to become the Black River. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tensas River"
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