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Atchafalaya
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Atchafalaya

River in Louisiana, the southwesterly distributary for floodwaters from the Red and Mississippi rivers. The Atchafalaya rises 11 km/7 mi west of the Mississippi, and winds 354 km/220 mi south and southeast, past Simmesport and Morgan City, to Atchafalaya Bay in the Gulf of Mexico. The river broadens into Grand Lake, 55 km/34 mi long and 6 km/4 mi wide, above Morgan City, and is intersected at the town by the Intracoastal Waterway. Extensive guide-levee (embankment) systems channel flood waters into its course.



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