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The western portion of the Gulf Coastal Plain—the West Gulf Coastal Plain—extends across southern Arkansas. It is located south of the Ouachita Mountains and extends southward to the Gulf of Mexico and eastward to the Mississippi Alluvial Plain.
The Gulf Coastal Plain is a westward extension of the Atlantic Coastal Plain around the Gulf of Mexico. It is only the lower, seaward part of this region that deserves the name of plain, for there alone is the surface unbroken by hills or valleys.
The West Gulf Coastal Plain (WGCP) covers more than 8,300 square miles and encompasses all or portions of 18 parishes in southwest and central Louisiana extends into several counties in Southeast Texas.
The West Gulf Coastal Plain ecoregion encompasses approximately 17,469 square miles (11,180,160 acres) in eastern Texas and western Louisiana, extending from the western edge of the Mississippi River floodplain in Louisiana to the Trinity River in Texas, and from the prairies
The West Gulf Coastal Plain/Ouachatas physiographic area occupies about 52.7 million acres in southeastern Arkansas, southwestern Oklahoma, western Louisiana, and eastern Texas. The area reaches from the Arkansas River Valley to the north in Arkansas and Oklahoma to the coastal prairies and marshes to the south in Louisiana and Texas, and from ...
The West Gulf Coastal Plain is the westernmost part of the larger Gulf-Atlantic Coastal Plain, which includes eastern Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, and portions of the eastern states along the Atlantic Ocean.
The West Gulf Coastal Plain is home to the last three percent of a primeval longleaf pine forest that once extended across 92 million acres of the southeastern United States from Texas to Virginia.