Tchefuncte River

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Tchefuncte River
Tchefuncte River as seen at Madisonville
Country	United States
State	Louisiana
Parishs	Washington, Tangipahoa, St. Tammany
Major cities	Covington, Madisonville
Length	48 mi (77 km) ^[1]
Source
- location	Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana ^[1]
- coordinates	30°54′22″N 90°20′59″W / 30.90611, -90.34972
Mouth	Lake Pontchartrain
- location	Madisonville, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana ^[1]
- coordinates	30°22′36″N 90°09′38″W / 30.37667, -90.16056
Major tributaries
- left	Bogue Falaya

The Tchefuncte River (chuh-FUNK-tuh) drains into Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana in the United States. It is about 48 miles (77 km) long.

In the 19th century it was an important commercial waterway, where building materials and other products of the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain were loaded to be shipped across the Lake to New Orleans.

1 Course
2 See also
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[edit] Course

The Tchefuncte rises in northeastern Tangipahoa Parish and initially flows southward; the river is used to define part of the eastern boundary of Tangipahoa Parish and parts of the western boundaries of Washington and St. Tammany Parishes before turning southeastward into St. Tammany Parish, where it passes the city of Covington and the town of Madisonville. It collects its largest tributary, the Bogue Falaya, at Covington and flows into Lake Pontchartrain about 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Madisonville, near the lake's northern extremity.

The Tchefuncte has been designated by the government of Louisiana as a "Natural and Scenic River." Fairview-Riverside State Park is located along the river upstream of Madisonville.