Bogue Falaya

Bogue Falaya
River
Country United States
State Louisiana
Parishes Washington, St. Tammany
Tributaries
 - left Abita River
City Covington
Source
 - location Washington Parish, Louisiana
 - coordinates
Mouth Tchefuncte River
 - location Covington, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
 - coordinates
Length 28 mi (45 km)

The Bogue Falaya, also known as the Bogue Falaya River, is a 28.0-mile-long (45.1 km)[1] river in southeastern Louisiana in the United States.[2] 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.[3]

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.[4] It joins the Tchefuncte River about 10 miles (16 km) upstream of that river's mouth at Lake Pontchartrain.[2]

The name is derived from the Choctaw words bogu, “river,” and falaya, "long."[5]

A portion of the Bogue Falaya in St. Tammany Parish has been designated a "Natural and Scenic River" by the state government of Louisiana.[3]

Variant names and spellings

According to the Geographic Names Information System, the Bogue Falaya has also been known historically as:[6]

  • 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

See also

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed June 20, 2011
  2. ^ a b Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry
  3. ^ 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)
  4. ^ DeLorme (2003). Louisiana Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-286-2
  5. ^ Bushnell, D.I. (1909). The Choctaw of Bayou Lacomb, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. Washington: Government Printing Office. p. 7. http://books.google.com/books?id=QyNxPfpa6dIC&pg=PA7&dq.  No copyright in the United States.
  6. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bogue Falaya