1. Waterways (Page 22 in notebook)

2. Mississippi River: Main artery of Louisiana
Largest river in the United States
Means: “great river” or “river of the holy spirit”

3. Red River: Second longest river in Louisiana Two unique things:
1. High salt content (flows over a salt dome)
2. White water rapids

4. Atchafalaya River: Means: Long river
Longest distributary (branch of a river that flows away from the main stream) of the Mississippi River
Half of all the nation’s migratory birds migrate to the Atchafalaya.
Basin supplies the world with 23 million pounds of crawfish a year.