Vermilion River (Louisiana)

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The Vermilion River is a river, 72 mi (116 km) long, 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 and Abbeville. At the port of Intracoastal City it is crossed by the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway before flowing into Vermilion Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.

[edit] See also

• List of Louisiana rivers

[edit] Sources

• Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry
• DeLorme (2003). Louisiana Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-286-2.
• Geographic Names Information System entry, retrieved 6 February 2006