L'Anguille River (pronounced "lan-GWEEL" "LANG-gill" or locally as "LANE-GEE") is a
tributary
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of the
St. Francis River, approximately 110 mi (175 km) long, in northeastern
Arkansas
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in the
United States
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. Via the St. Francis River, it is part of the
Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system in North America, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it fl ...
watershed.
L'Anguille is a name derived from
French meaning "the
eel
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".
Course
The L'Anguille is formed south of
Jonesboro in southern
Craighead County by a confluence of agricultural ditches; several portions of the river's upper course have been straightened and
channelized. The river flows generally southward through
Poinsett,
Cross
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,
St. Francis and
Lee Counties, parallel to
Crowley's Ridge
Crowley's Ridge (also Crowleys Ridge) is a geological formation that rises 250 to above the alluvial plain of the Mississippi embayment in a line from southeastern Missouri to the Mississippi River near Helena, Arkansas. It is the most pro ...
and past the towns of
Palestine and
Marianna. It joins the St. Francis River in eastern Lee County, not far above that river's confluence with the Mississippi River. A diversion ditch routes a portion of the St. Francis River's flow to the lowermost course of the L'Anguille.
See also
*
List of Arkansas rivers
List of rivers in Arkansas ( U.S. state).
For a list of dams and reservoirs in Arkansas, see List of Arkansas dams and reservoirs Rivers are listed by drainage basin, by size, and alphabetically.
By drainage basin
This list is arranged by draina ...
References
Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry*
DeLorme (2004). ''Arkansas Atlas & Gazetteer''. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. .
*, retrieved 6 February 2006
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Rivers of Arkansas
Crowley's Ridge
Tributaries of the Mississippi River
Bodies of water of Cross County, Arkansas
Bodies of water of Lee County, Arkansas
Bodies of water of Poinsett County, Arkansas
Bodies of water of St. Francis County, Arkansas