The word Atchafalaya derives from the
Choctaw term ''hacha falaia'', meaning "long river".
Atchafalaya may refer to:
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Atchafalaya, Louisiana, Ghost town in Louisiana, U.S.
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Atchafalaya River
The Atchafalaya River ( french: La Rivière Atchafalaya, es, Río Atchafalaya) is a distributary of the Mississippi River and Red River in south central Louisiana in the United States. It flows south, just west of the Mississippi River, and ...
, Louisiana, U.S.
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Atchafalaya Basin
The Atchafalaya Basin, or Atchafalaya Swamp (; Louisiana French: ''L'Atchafalaya'', ), is the largest wetland and swamp in the United States. Located in south central Louisiana, it is a combination of wetlands and river delta area where the At ...
or Atchafalaya Swamp, wetlands surrounding the lower part of the Atchafalaya River, Louisiana
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Atchafalaya Basin Bridge
The Atchafalaya Basin Bridge, also known as the Louisiana Airborne Memorial Bridge, is a pair of parallel bridges in the U.S. state of Louisiana between Baton Rouge and Lafayette which carries Interstate 10 over the Atchafalaya Basin. With a to ...
*** Atchafalaya Swamp Freeway, a portion of
Interstate 10 in Louisiana
Interstate 10 (I-10), a major transcontinental Interstate Highway in the Southern United States, runs across the southern part of Louisiana for from Texas to Mississippi. It passes through Lake Charles, Lafayette, and Baton Rouge, dips s ...
that includes the bridge
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Atchafalaya National Heritage Area
Atchafalaya National Heritage Area is a federally designated National Heritage Area encompassing parts of fourteen parishes along the Atchafalaya River in the U.S. State of Louisiana. The heritage area extends the length of the Atchafalaya Basi ...
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Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge
The Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge is located about west of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and one mile (1.6 km) east of Krotz Springs, Louisiana, lies just east of the Atchafalaya River. In 1988 under the administration of Governor Foster th ...
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Atchafalaya Golf Course at Idlewild, Patterson, Louisiana
*A song from the album ''
Sylva'', by jazz ensemble Snarky Puppy
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