The Natalbany River drains into
Lake Maurepas
Lake Maurepas ( ; french: Lac Maurepas) is located in southeastern Louisiana, approximately halfway between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, directly west of Lake Pontchartrain.
Toponymy
Lake Maurepas was named for Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, com ...
in
Louisiana
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in the
United States
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. It is about long.
[U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data]
The National Map
accessed August 8, 2019
Etymology
It is speculated that the name of the river is derived from the
Choctaw
The Choctaw (in the Choctaw language, Chahta) are a Native American people originally based in the Southeastern Woodlands, in what is now Alabama and Mississippi. Their Choctaw language is a Western Muskogean language. Today, Choctaw people are ...
words ''nita'' meaning bear and ''abani'' which means "to cook over a fire" in the
Choctaw language
The Choctaw language (Choctaw: ), spoken by the Choctaw, an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, is part of the Muskogean language family. Chickasaw is separate but closely related language to Choctaw.
The Choctaw Nation of Oklahom ...
.
References
See also
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2016 Louisiana floods
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List of Louisiana rivers
List of rivers of Louisiana (U.S. state).
By drainage basin
This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
Gulf of Mexico
East of the Mississippi
*Pearl River
**Bogue Chitto River
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Rivers of Louisiana
Bodies of water of St. Helena Parish, Louisiana
Bodies of water of Livingston Parish, Louisiana
Tributaries of Lake Maurepas