The Atchafalaya River (/əˌtʃæf.əˈlaɪ.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 North America, by discharge.[5] The name Atchafalaya comes from Choctaw for 'long river', from hachcha, 'river', and falaya, 'long'.[6]
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^"National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data". United States Geological Survey. Archived from the original on 29 March 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
^Atchafalaya River Navigation Book. United States Army Corps of Engineers. October 2010. Archived from the original on 27 February 2013.
^Piazza, Bryan P. (2014). The Atchafalaya River Basin: History and Ecology of an American Wetland. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1-62349-039-3.
^Bright, William (2004). Native American placenames of the United States. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-8061-3598-4.
The AtchafalayaRiver (/əˌtʃæf.əˈlaɪ.ə/ French: La Rivière Atchafalaya, Spanish: Río Atchafalaya) is a 137-mile-long (220 km) distributary of the Mississippi...
shifting into the channel of the AtchafalayaRiver and bypassing New Orleans. Since the 20th century, the Mississippi River has also experienced major pollution...
Although once a tributary of the Mississippi River, the Red River is now a tributary of the AtchafalayaRiver, a distributary of the Mississippi that flows...
Channel and the AtchafalayaRiver. The average daily traffic count is (as of 2015) 30,420 vehicles. Accidents occur frequently near the two river crossings...
system. Before the Mississippi River reaches the Gulf of Mexico, it runs into its distributary, the AtchafalayaRiver. From the perspective of modern...
make up the Mississippi River Delta. The AtchafalayaRiver is the largest distributary of the Mississippi River and is also considered to be an influential...
during major flood events by flooding the Atchafalaya Basin, including the AtchafalayaRiver and the Atchafalaya Swamp. The spillway and adjacent levees...
The word Atchafalaya derives from the Choctaw term hacha falaia, meaning "long river". Atchafalaya may refer to: Atchafalaya, Louisiana, Ghost town in...
Louisiana, the Mississippi River bifurcates into the AtchafalayaRiver. The Atchafalaya is 137 miles long and is the fifth largest river in North America, by...
day-to-day activities of alligator hunters living in the swamps of the AtchafalayaRiver Basin who hunt American alligators for a living. Alligator season...
Mississippi River. Because the Atchafalaya takes a steeper route to the Gulf of Mexico than does the Mississippi, over several decades the Atchafalaya has captured...
Mississippi River floods. 2011 Missouri River Flood 2011 Assiniboine River Flood 2011 Red River Flood 2011 Souris River flood 2011 Super Outbreak Atchafalaya River...
The New Yorker: "Atchafalaya", "Cooling the Lava", and "Los Angeles Against the Mountains". These respectively describe the Old River Control Structure...
an enormous log jam or series of "rafts" that clogged the Red and Atchafalayarivers in North America from perhaps the 12th century until its removal in...
North to distinguish it from the so-called Red River of the South, a tributary of the AtchafalayaRiver that forms part of the border between Texas, Oklahoma...
from Bayou Courtableau and then flows southward to meet the Lower AtchafalayaRiver at Patterson. During the 18th-century Acadian migration to the area...
Napoleonville, Louisiana, south of Pierre Part, part of the AtchafalayaRiver Basin of the Lower Mississippi River Region, with 246,000 acres (100,000 ha) of watershed...
Louisiana, lies just east of the AtchafalayaRiver. In 1988 under the administration of Governor Foster the "Atchafalaya Basin Master Plan" was implemented...
Mississippi River Bayou Lafourche Bayou Terrebonne Bayou Black Bayou du Large Bayou Grand Caillou Bayou Petit Caillou AtchafalayaRiver Bayou Cocodrie...
an outlet channel, the Wax Lake outlet, to divert water from the AtchafalayaRiver to the Gulf of Mexico. The history of the Wax Lake Outlet, as well...
parishes along the Atchafalaya River in the U.S. State of Louisiana. The heritage area extends the length of the Atchafalaya Basin from the area of Ferriday...
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