- The
Atchafalaya River (/əˌtʃæf.əˈlaɪ.ə/ French: La Rivière
Atchafalaya, Spanish: Río
Atchafalaya) is a 137-mile-long (220 km)
distributary of the Mississippi...
- The
Atchafalaya Basin, or
Atchafalaya Swamp (/əˌtʃæfəˈlaɪə/;
Louisiana French:
Atchafalaya, [atʃafalaˈja]), is the
largest wetland and
swamp in the United...
- The word
Atchafalaya derives from the
Choctaw term
hacha falaia,
meaning "long river".
Atchafalaya may
refer to:
Atchafalaya, Louisiana,
Ghost town in...
- The
Atchafalaya Basin Bridge, also
known as the
Louisiana Airborne Memorial Bridge, is a pair of
parallel bridges in the U.S.
state of
Louisiana between...
-
prevent the
lower Mississippi from
shifting into the
channel of the
Atchafalaya River and byp****ing New Orleans.
Since the 20th century, the Mississippi...
- is the
northernmost town on the
Atchafalaya River,
located near the Old
River which connects the Red and
Atchafalaya rivers with the
Mississippi River...
-
River reaches the Gulf of Mexico, it runs into its distributary, the
Atchafalaya River. From the
perspective of
modern commercial navigation, the system...
-
killed in his home
during a raid by a U.S.
military detachment into the
Atchafalaya River basin in
autumn of 1864; he was
apparently personally targeted...
- feet per
second (3,500 m3/s) of
water from the
Mississippi River to the
Atchafalaya Basin. This
diversion was
deemed necessary to
protect levees and prevent...
-
combines three long
essays previously published in The New Yorker: "
Atchafalaya", "Cooling the Lava", and "Los
Angeles Against the Mountains". These...
