List of rivers of Louisiana
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List of rivers of Louisiana (U.S. state).
By drainage basin
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Major waterways of Louisiana.[1] West to East:
This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
Gulf of Mexico
[edit]East of the Mississippi
[edit]Mississippi River
[edit]Distributaries
[edit]Tributaries
[edit]- Bayou Pierre[2]
- Coles Creek[3]
- Yazoo River[4]
- Red River
Red River
[edit]- Red River
Gulf west of the Mississippi
[edit]Alphabetically
[edit]- Abita River
- Amite River
- Antoine Creek
- Atchafalaya River
- Bay Natchez
- Bayou Bartholomew
- Bayou Bienvenue
- Bayou Bourbeux
- Bayou Bonfouca
- Bayou Brevelle
- Bayou Carencro
- Bayou Chicot
- Bayou Choupic
- Bayou Courtableau
- Bayou des Cannes
- Bayou des Glaises
- Bayou Fusilier
- Bayou Jack
- Bayou Lafourche, Mississippi River distributary
- Bayou Lafourche (Boeuf River tributary)
- Bayou Long
- Bayou Macon
- Bayou Mallet
- Bayou Manchac
- Bayou Nezpique
- Bayou Pierre
- Bayou Pierre
- Bayou Plaquemine Brule
- Bayou Plaquemine (Grand River tributary)
- Bayou Queue de Tortue
- Bayou Teche
- Bayou Wikoff
- Big Goddel Bayou
- Black Bayou
- Black Lake Bayou
- Black River
- Blind River
- Boeuf River
- Bogue Chitto River
- Bogue Falaya
- Calcasieu River
- Cane River
- Castor Creek
- Chopin Chute
- Coles Creek
- Comite River
- Dorcheat Bayou
- Dugdemona River
- Flat River
- Houston River
- Irish Bayou
- Kisatchie Bayou
- 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 Creek
- Prairie River (Louisiana)
- Red River
- Rouge Bayou
- Rigolets
- Sabine River
- Saline Bayou
- Sims Creek
- Tangipahoa River
- Tchefuncte River
- Tensas River
- Tickfaw River
- Twelvemile Bayou
- Vermilion River
- Yazoo River
References
[edit]- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. "National Hydrography Dataset". U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved 2024-04-14.
- ^ "Bayou Pierre" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
- ^ "Coles Creek" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved December 23, 2019.
- ^ "Yazoo River" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved December 23, 2019.
- USGS Geographic Names Information System
- USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Louisiana (1974)
See also
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