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Southeastern Louisiana [30.5oN, 91.5oW]
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- Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge
- GORP Page
- Atchafalaya Basin Program - They have a color map available (waterproof, satellite imagery).
- Atchafalaya River Basin Ecology
- Cypress Tupelo Swamps of the Atchafalaya Basin
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- Map [JPG] - Look on the left-hand side of the image
"America's Great River Swamp Deep in the heart of Cajun country, at the southern end of the Lower Mississippi River Valley in south-central Louisiana, lies the nation's largest complex of forested wetlands; the Atchafalaya River Basin.
This basin contains nearly one-half million acres of hardwood swamps, lakes, and bayous, and is larger than the vast Okefenokee Swamp of Georgia and Florida. It is an immense natural floodplain of the Atchafalaya River, which flows for 140 miles south from its junction with the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. The fish and wildlife resources of the Atchafalaya River Basin are exceptional. The basin's dense bottomland hardwoods, cypress-tupelo swamps, overflow lakes, and meandering bayous provide a tremendous diversity of habitat for many species of fish and wildlife. Ecologists rank the basin as one of the most productive wildlife areas in North America."
- Great Outdoor Recreation Pages