Bogue Falaya
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The Bogue Falaya, also known as the Bogue Falaya River, is a Script error: No such module "convert".[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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References
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- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Template:Webarchive, accessed June 20, 2011
- ↑ a b Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry Template:Webarchive
- ↑ a b Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (2002). State of Louisiana Water Quality Management Plan Template:Webarchive: Appendix B: Descriptions of Louisiana's Natural and Scenic Rivers (PDF)
- ↑ DeLorme (2003). Louisiana Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. Template:ISBN
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