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Bayou Corne in Louisiana, October 2010. In usage in the Southern United States, a bayou (/ ˈ b aɪ. uː, ˈ b aɪ. oʊ /) [1] is a body of water typically found in a flat, low-lying area. It may refer to an extremely slow-moving stream, river (often with a poorly defined shoreline), marshy lake, wetland, or creek.
Atchafalaya Basin. The wetlands of Louisiana are water-saturated coastal and swamp regions of southern Louisiana, often called "Bayou".. The Louisiana coastal zone stretches from the border of Texas to the Mississippi line [1] and comprises two wetland-dominated ecosystems, the Deltaic Plain of the Mississippi River (unit 1, 2, and 3) and the closely linked Chenier Plain (unit 4). [2]
The Vermilion River (or the Bayou Vermilion, French: Rivière Vermillon) is a 70.0-mile-long (112.7 km) [2] bayou in southern Louisiana in the United States.It is formed on the common boundary of Lafayette and St. Martin parishes by a confluence of small bayous flowing from St. Landry Parish, and flows generally southward through Lafayette and Vermilion parishes, past the cities of Lafayette ...
Bayou Chaperon - 041802; Bayou Chinchuba - 040904; Bayou des Allemands - 020201 and 020301; Bayou Dupre - 041804; Bayou LaBranche - 041201; Bayou Lacombe - 040901 and 040902; Bayou St. John - 041301; Bayou Trepagnier - 041202; Blind River - 040401 and 040403; Bogue Chitto River - 090501; Bogue Falaya River - 040804; Bradley Slough - 090206 ...
the location where a river flows into an ocean, sea, estuary, lake, or reservoir. Distributary or distributary channel: a stream that branches off and flows away from the main stream channel. Drainage basin: a region of land where water from rain or snowmelt drains downhill into another body of water, such as a river, lake, or reservoir. Draw
Bayou Teche was the Mississippi River's main course when it developed a delta about 2,800 to 4,500 years ago. Through a natural process known as deltaic switching , the river's deposits of silt and sediment cause the Mississippi to change its course every thousand years or so.
Bayou Lafourche (/ l ə ˈ f uː ʃ / lə-FOOSH [1]), originally called Chetimachas River [2] or La Fourche des Chetimaches [3] (the fork of the Chitimacha), is a 106-mile-long (171 km) [4] bayou in southeastern Louisiana, United States, that flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
A bayou is a Franco-English term used in the United States for a body of water typically found in a flat, low-lying area, and can refer either to an extremely slow-moving stream or river (often with a poorly defined shoreline), or to a marshy lake or wetland.