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Louisiana is divided into 64 parishes, which are equivalent to counties, and contains 304 municipalities consisting of four consolidated city-parishes, 64 cities, 130 towns, and 106 villages. [2] Louisiana's municipalities cover only 7.8% of the state's land mass but are home to 46.4% of its population. [1]
It is primarily a sport fishing community with few permanent residents. The Irish Bayou Castle, also known as Fisherman's Castle, was built in 1981 in preparation for the 1984 Louisiana world exposition. The castle is now owned and used by Charles and Jean Khul [2] as a hunting and fishing camp. [3] The origin of the community of Irish Bayou is ...
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Lake Verret is 14,080 acres (5,700 ha) natural lake located in Assumption, Parish, Louisiana, US.The lake is west of Napoleonville, Louisiana, south of Pierre Part, part of the Atchafalaya River Basin of the Lower Mississippi River Region, with 246,000 acres (100,000 ha) of watershed that includes 22,300 acres (9,000 ha) (34.84 square miles (90.2 km 2)) in Ascension Parish 104,500 acres ...
Bayou Manchac is an 18-mile-long (29 km) [1] bayou in southeast Louisiana, USA.First called the Iberville River ("rivière d'Iberville") by its French discoverers, [2] [3] the bayou was once a very important waterway linking the Mississippi River (west end) to the Amite River (east end).
Louisiana’s map has been the subject of intense litigation, with the state’s original effort ruled to be a racial gerrymander. Using the Legislature’s original map, Republicans won five of ...
Alluvial City is an Isleño fishing community in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, United States. [1] The community is located on the western bank of Bayou la Loutre. Alluvial City is connected to the neighboring community of Yscloskey by the Bayou la Loutre lift bridge , also known as the Yscloskey bridge.
Cocodrie is an unincorporated fishing, shrimping and crabbing village in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, United States, 10 miles south of Chauvin and due south of the city of Houma. [1] It is part of the Houma–Bayou Cane–Thibodaux Metropolitan Statistical Area.