| |
- The Tensas Basin is a flat alluvial plain
formed over a period of countless ages by the mighty Mississippi River. With its
northern boundary in Arkansas, the basin extends southern and southwestward to the Black
and Ouachita rivers, and westward from the Mississippi to the highlands on the west bank
of Bayou Macon.
-
- In its long journey to the Gulf of Mexico, the
Father of Waters deposited fertile soil, built up natural levees, and dug many channels as
it sought new paths to the sea; oxbow-shaped lakes and bayous in the basin were once the
main stream of the Mississippi.
-
- Northeast Louisiana
- The Upper Mississippi River
- The Tensas River
- Bayou Macon
- The Ouachita River
- The Black River
-
- Northwest Louisiana
- Bayou Dorcheat
- Red River
-
- Southwest Louisiana
- Sabine River
- Calcasieu River
-
- South Louisiana
- Atchafalaya River
- Bayou Teche
- Bayou LaFourche
-
- Southeast Louisiana
- The Lower Mississippi
- Pearl River
- Amite River
|