Tchoupitoulas Street ( ) is a

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New Orleans, Louisiana New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans
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. Running through uptown, it is the through street closest to 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 f ...

. Formerly, the street was heavily devoted to river shipping commerce, but as shipping concerns gravitated to other locations in the latter part of the 20th century, more of the street has been utilized for residential and other business purposes.

Etymology

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The name of the street comes from the name of a Native American tribe that perhaps means "those who live at the river" in

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 ...

('). The tribal village – called the ' (or ') ' in the 18th and early 19th centuries – was the

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of a

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also named after the Chapitoulas.

Location

The street starts at the upriver side of Canal Street (the opposite side from the

French Quarter The French Quarter, also known as the , is the oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans. After New Orleans (french: La Nouvelle-Orléans) was founded in 1718 by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, the city developed around the ("Old Squ ...

) and goes through

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(CBD) and uptown, following the curve of the river's crescent bend before coming to its terminus, hitting East Road at Audubon Park. The equivalent street on the French Quarter side of Canal Street is Peters Street, which splits into two streets on the uptown side: one continuing as Peters, and the other as Tchoupitoulas.

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{{NOLA Streets Streets in New Orleans Uptown New Orleans Great River Road

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