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n. River in Louisiana, major distributary of the Mississippi River.
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The word Atchafalaya
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derives from the Choctaw term hacha falaia, meaning "long river".
Atchafalaya can refer to
- The Atchafalaya Basin or Atchafalaya Swamp, wetlands surrounding the lower part of the Atchafalaya River
- The Atchafalaya Basin Bridge
- The Atchafalaya Golf Course at Idlewild, in Patterson, Louisiana
- The Atchafalaya National Heritage Area
- The Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge
- The Atchafalaya River in Louisiana
- The Atchafalaya Swamp Freeway, a section of Interstate 10
- Atchafalaya Productions, production company for the film Passion Fish
Usage examples of "atchafalaya".
Decoteau, but I do love history -- and getting tangled up inside my head with that gravel road cutting through the Atchafalaya, so clean and dry that God Himself might have put it there, and maybe He did.
NEVER LEAVES the Atchafalaya, she just lies up through the heat of the day, same as the rest of the swamp creatures.
I stand on the bank, staring out at it and thinking of Lucas Dixon and our night in the Atchafalaya and the price you have to pay to call yourself a man.
He idly wondered what manner of experiments they were conducting here on the Atchafalaya River below Sungari.
The sun had still to put in an appearance when the shantyboat swung onto the Atchafalaya and headed downriver.
They reached the Atchafalaya River and returned up Hooker's Bayou to the shantyboat just as the eastern sky was beginning to lighten from black to blue-gray.
The night chorus begins to sing, frogs and lubbers and crickets, and occasionally you'll catch a glimpse of the rarest creatures of the Atchafalaya -- a bear or a bobcat or the great white flag of a snowy egret hurling itself into the velvet dark with a thunder of mighty wings.
Once the ship's nine-hundred-ninety-foot hull with its height of ninety feet is scuttled diagonally across the river, it will block ninety percent of the Mississippi's flow, sending one enormous flood tide through the shattered levee into the Atchafalaya.
Soon the container ship was moving through the deep-water channel of the lower Atchafalaya River and across Sweet Bay Lake toward the docks of Sungari.