Bogue Falaya
| Bogue Falaya | |
| River | |
| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| State | Louisiana |
| Parishes | Washington, St. Tammany |
| Tributaries | |
| - left | Abita River |
| City | Covington |
| Source | |
| - location | Washington Parish, Louisiana |
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| Mouth | Tchefuncte River |
| - location | Covington, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana |
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| Length | 28 mi (45 km) |
The Bogue Falaya, also known as the Bogue Falaya River, is a 28-mile-long (45 km)[1] river in southeastern Louisiana in the United States.[2] It is a tributary of the Tchefuncte River, which flows to Lake Pontchartrain. The river flows through an area of mixed pine-hardwood and bottomland hardwood forests on the Gulf Coastal Plain.[3]
The Bogue Falaya rises in southwestern Washington Parish and flows generally south-southeastwardly through western St. Tammany Parish, past Covington, where it collects the Abita River.[4] It joins the Tchefuncte River about 10 miles (16 km) upstream of that river's mouth at Lake Pontchartrain.[2]
The name is derived from the Choctaw words bogu, “river,” and falaya, "long."[5][6]
A portion of the Bogue Falaya in St. Tammany Parish has been designated a "Natural and Scenic River" by the state government of Louisiana.[3]
Variant names and spellings
According to the Geographic Names Information System, the Bogue Falaya has also been known historically as:[7]
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See also
References
- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed June 20, 2011
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (2002). State of Louisiana Water Quality Management Plan: Appendix B: Descriptions of Louisiana's Natural and Scenic Rivers (PDF)
- ↑ DeLorme (2003). Louisiana Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-286-2
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. No copyright in the United States.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bogue Falaya
