The river valley forms the Atchafalaya Basin and Atchafalaya Swamp located in southern Louisiana near the Gulf of Mexico. The Atchafalaya became a main distributary of the Mississippi in 1839 to 1849 when locals removed a huge log jam (the Great Raft) that was obstructing the Atchafalaya River.
Welcome to America’s largest freshwater swamp: the Atchafalaya River Basin. From upland forests, to Cypress/Tupelo swamps, to an active land-building river delta, the Atchafalaya has lots to see.
The Atchafalaya River Basin stretches from the Baton Rouge area 140 miles south to the coast of Louisiana. Atchafalaya is the nation's largest river swamp, containing almost one million acres of vibrant bottomland hardwoods, swamps, bayous, and backwater lakes.
The Atchafalaya Basin, home of North America's last great river swamp, is the basin of the Atchafalaya River, a 135-mile long natural distributary of the Mississippi River that empties into the Gulf of Mexico and is the only growing delta in Louisiana.
KLFY News 10: Concerns grow over river diversion project in Atchafalaya Basin
ST. MARTIN PARISH, La. (KLFY) — St. Martin Parish council members and swamp advocates are expressing their concerns over a river diversion project in Atchafalaya Basin, a project they say could lead ...
The Atchafalaya Basin (dark green in this satellite image, with the Atchafalaya River running through its center) is almost a million acres of bottomland woods and swamp. DeWitt Braud, LSU/USGS Nat.
ST. MARTIN PARISH, La. (KLFY) — The St. Martin Parish Council has filed amicus brief in support of a lawsuit to stop a river diversion project in the Atchafalaya Basin. St. Martin Parish becomes the ...