The Comite River (french: Rivière Comité) is a right-bank tributary of the

Amite River The Amite River (french: Rivière Amite) is a tributary of Lake Maurepas in Mississippi and Louisiana in the United States. It is about long. It starts as two forks in southwestern Mississippi and flows south through Louisiana, passing Greate ...

, with a confluence near the city of

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, east of

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. The river is long.U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data
The National Map
, accessed June 20, 2011 Its

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comprises about , and includes portions of Wilkinson and Amite Counties in Mississippi, and East Feliciana and

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Parishes in Louisiana.Comite River Diversion
The river's source lies in the hills of the East and West Feliciana Parishes, and empties into the Amite River just north of

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(Florida Blvd) near the eastern boundary of Baton Rouge.

Flooding

When violent rains that frequent the capital city region strike, the water from the hills and piney forest in the Felicianas drains down into this usually shallow and calm river and quickly transforms it. During such flooding, the water flows southwards, sometimes flooding homes in outlying areas east of Baton Rouge. Floodwaters have been recorded to have covered Greenwell Springs Road in extreme conditions.

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Rivers of Louisiana Bodies of water of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana Bodies of water of East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana {{Louisiana-river-stub

Flooding

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