Bogue Falaya

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Bogue Falaya
Country United States
State Louisiana
Parishs Washington, St. Tammany
Major city Covington
Length 23 mi (37 km)
Source
 - location Washington Parish, Louisiana
 - coordinates 30°42′11″N 90°09′55″W / 30.70306, -90.16528
Mouth Tchefuncte River
 - location Covington, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
 - coordinates 30°26′23″N 90°06′59″W / 30.43972, -90.11639
Major tributaries
 - left Abita River

The Bogue Falaya, also known as the Bogue Falaya River, is a river, about 23 miles (37 km) long, in southeastern Louisiana in the United States.[1] It is a tributary of the Tchefuncte River, which flows to Lake Pontchartrain. The river flows through an area of mixed pine-hardwood and bottomland hardwood forests on the Gulf Coastal Plain.[2]

The Bogue Falaya rises in southwestern Washington Parish and flows generally south-southeastwardly through western St. Tammany Parish, past Covington, where it collects the Abita River.[3] It joins the Tchefuncte River about 10 miles (16 km) upstream of that river's mouth at Lake Pontchartrain.[1]

The name is derived from the Choctaw words bogu, “river,” and falaya, "long."[4]

A portion of the Bogue Falaya in St. Tammany Parish has been designated as a "Natural and Scenic River" by the state government of Louisiana.[2]

[edit] Variant names and spellings

According to the Geographic Names Information System, the Bogue Falaya has also been known historically as:[5]

  • Bogue Falaia
  • Bogue Falaya River
  • Bogue Falia
  • Bogue Faliah
  • Bogue Fallaya
  • Bogue Faylia
  • Bogue Phalia
  • Bouge Filia
  • Bouge Filiah
  • Bougue Falaia
  • Buck-Palaya Arroyo
  • Long River

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry
  2. ^ a b Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (2002). State of Louisiana Water Quality Management Plan: Appendix B: Descriptions of Louisiana's Natural and Scenic Rivers (PDF)
  3. ^ DeLorme (2003). Louisiana Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-286-2
  4. ^ Bushnell, D.I. (1909). The Choctaw of Bayou Lacomb, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. Washington: Government Printing Office, p. 7.  No copyright in the United States.
  5. ^ USGS GNIS: Bogue Falaya