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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 ...
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Louisiana Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is borde ...
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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 ...
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References


See also

* 2016 Louisiana floods *
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 ...
{{authority control Rivers of Louisiana Bodies of water of St. Helena Parish, Louisiana Bodies of water of Livingston Parish, Louisiana Tributaries of Lake Maurepas