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Plaquemines Parish

Mississippi River

The Mississippi River runs 2,320 miles south from Lake Itasca in to Plaquemines Parish, , , drawing a wide, tangled and twisted dividing line cleaving the continental almost into two.
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: primary river of the largest drainage basin in the United States
  • Also known as: “Balbancha”, “Barbancha”, “Chicagua”, “Chucagua River”, “Colbert River”, “El Rio Grande de la Flordia”, “Escondido”, “Father of Waters”, “Fiume del Missisipi”, “Fleuve Colbert”, “Fleuve Mississippim”, “Grand Riviere”, “Grande Riviere”, “Haha Wakpa”, “Kickaatiit”, “Kickaatit”, “La Grande Riviere”, “La Palisade River”, “LaRiviere des Peres”, “Malabanchia”, “Malabouchia”, “Malbanchia”, “Malbanchya”, “Malbouche”, “Mamaesi Sipu”, “Masciccipi River”, “Masseippey”, “Masseppey”, “Meact-Chassipi”, “Mech-e-se-be River”, “Mechacebe River”, “Mechasipi River”, “Meche Sebe River”, “Mee-chee-see-bee River”, “Merchacebe River”, “Mesasippi River”, “Meschacebe”, “Meschacebee”, “Meschasipi River”, “Meschasypy”, “Messa Sepo”, “Messipi River”, “Michi Sepe River”, “Micissipi River”, “Micissippi River”, “Mico”, “Mischipi River”, “Misipi River”, “Misisipi River”, “Misissipai River”, “Misissipia River”, “Misseppey River”, “Missi-sipi Riviere”, “Missicipy River”, “Missiippi River”, “Missipi River”, “Missippi River”, “Missippy River”, “Missisipi Fiume”, “Missisipi River”, “Missisippi River”, “Missisipy River”, “Mississipi Flu”, “Mississipi River”, “Mississipie River”, “Mississippi”, “Mississippi River Delta”, “Mississippie River”, “Mississippy River”, “Mississipy River”, “Mitchi-Sipi”, “Mitchisipi River”, “Mnisosethaka”, “Myssysypy River”, “Namisi Sipu”, “Neekoosa-ho-xa-tay-ra”, “Occochappo”, “Ochechiton”, “Onauweyoka”, “Palisado”, “Rieveiere Conception”, “Rio Colbert”, “Rio De Flores”, “Rio de la Palicado”, “Rio De La Palizada”, “Rio del Espiritu Sancto”, “Rio del Espiritu Santo”, “Rio del Spiritu Sancto”, “Rio Grande”, “Rio Grande del Espiritu Santo”, “Rio Grande del Flordia”, “Rio Misiaipi”, “Rio San Luis”, “River of Saint Lewis”, “River of the Palisades”, “Rivier Missisippi”, “Rivier van Saint Louis”, “Riviere Buade”, “Riviere Colbert”, “Riviere de la Conception”, “Riviere de Misisipi”, “Riviere de Mississippi”, “Riviere de Saint Louis”, “Riviere Frontenac”, “Riviere Louisiana”, “Tamaliseu Japatu”, “Tamalisieu”, “Tapatu”, “The Mississippi”, “We-o-coof-ke”, “Yandawezue”, and “Zinotarista”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pilottown.

Hamlet
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is an unincorporated community and ghost town in , , . It serves as a base for river pilots to guide ships across the bar and up and down the Mississippi River. is situated 2 miles north of Mississippi River.

Mississippi River

Latitude
29.15106° or 29° 9′ 4″ north
Longitude
-89.25338° or 89° 15′ 12″ west
Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)
Open location code
76XG5P2W+CJ
Geo­Names ID
4333587
Wiki­data ID
Q1497
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Mississippi River” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Mississippirivier”
  • Albanian: “Lumi i Misisipit”
  • Albanian: “Mississippi”
  • Amharic: “ሚሲሲፒ ወንዝ”
  • Arabic: “المسسپي”
  • Arabic: “المسيسبي”
  • Arabic: “المسيسيبي”
  • Arabic: “نهر المسيسبى”
  • Arabic: “نهر المسيسبي”
  • Arabic: “نهر المسيسيبي”
  • Arabic: “نهر الميسيسيبي”
  • Arabic: “نهر ميسيسيبي”
  • Aragonese: “Río Misisipi”
  • Aragonese: “Río Mississippi”
  • Armenian: “Միսիսիպի գետ”
  • Assamese: “মিছিছিপি নদী”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Mississippi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Böyük çay”
  • Azerbaijani: “Missisipi çayı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nəhəng çay”
  • Balinese: “Tukad Mississippi”
  • Bashkir: “Миссисипи”
  • Basque: “Mississippi ibaia”
  • Basque: “Mississippi”
  • Bavarian: “Mississippi River”
  • Belarusian: “Місісіпі”
  • Belarusian: “Місысыпі”
  • Bengali: “মিসিসিপি নদী”
  • Bhojpuri: “मिसिसिपी नदी”
  • Bhojpuri: “मिसिसिप्पी नदी”
  • Bhojpuri: “मिसीसिपी नदी”
  • Bosnian: “Mississippi”
  • Breton: “Mississippi”
  • Bulgarian: “Мисисипи”
  • Burmese: “မစ္စစ္စပီမြစ်”
  • Catalan: “Mississipi”
  • Cebuano: “Mississippi River”
  • Central Bikol: “Mississippi River”
  • Central Bikol: “Salog Mississippi”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕووباری میسیسیپی”
  • Chechen: “Миссисипи”
  • Cheyenne: “Ma’xeé’ome’tää’e”
  • Chinese: “Mississippi Hô”
  • Chinese: “密西西比河”
  • Chuvash: “Миссисипи”
  • Cornish: “Dowr Mississippi”
  • Cornish: “Mississippi (avon)”
  • Corsican: “Mississippi”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Missisipi (özen)”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Missisipi”
  • Croatian: “Mississippi”
  • Czech: “Mississippi”
  • Danish: “Mississippifloden”
  • Dotyali: “मिसिसिपी नदी”
  • Dutch: “Mississippi”
  • Eastern Mari: “Миссисипи”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر الميسيسيبى”
  • Esperanto: “Misisipo”
  • Estonian: “Mississippi”
  • Faroese: “Mississippiá”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Mississippi Naddi”
  • Finnish: “Mississippi”
  • French: “fleuve Mississippi”
  • French: “Mississippi River”
  • French: “Mississippi”
  • Galician: “Misisipi”
  • Galician: “Mississippi”
  • Galician: “Río Mississippi”
  • Georgian: “მისისიპი”
  • German: “Mississippi River”
  • German: “Mississippi”
  • Gilaki: “ميسيسيپي رۊبار”
  • Gilaki: “میسیسیپی روبار”
  • Gothic: “𐌼𐌹𐍃𐍃𐌹𐍃𐍃𐌹𐍀𐍀𐌴𐌹 (𐌰𐍈𐌰)”
  • Gothic: “𐌼𐌹𐍃𐍃𐌹𐍃𐍃𐌹𐍀𐍀𐌴𐌹”
  • Greek: “Μισσισσιππής”
  • Guarani: “Ysyry Misisipi”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Misisipi (flèv)”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Misisipi”
  • Haitian: “Misisipi”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Me̍t-sî-sî-pí-hò”
  • Hausa: “Mississippi (kogi)”
  • Hausa: “Mississippi”
  • Hebrew: “מיסיסיפי”
  • Hebrew: “מסלול הטיול במורד נהר המיסיסיפי”
  • Hindi: “मिसिसिप्पी नदी”
  • Hungarian: “Mississippi”
  • Icelandic: “Mississippifljót”
  • Ido: “Fluvio Mississippi”
  • Iloko: “Karayan Mississippi”
  • Inari Sami: “Mississippijuuhâ”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Mississippi”
  • Interlingua: “Fluvio Mississippi”
  • Irish: “Abhainn Mississippi”
  • Italian: “Mississippi”
  • Japanese: “ミシシッピー川”
  • Japanese: “ミシシッピ川”
  • Javanese: “Kali Mississippi”
  • Kabiyè: “Misisipii Pɔɔ”
  • Kabyle: “Asif n Mississippi”
  • Kannada: “ಮಿಸ್ಸಿಸಿಪ್ಪಿ ನದಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Missisipi da’ryasi”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Missisipi dáryası”
  • Kazakh: “Миссисипи”
  • Komering: “Batangari Mississippi”
  • Komering: “Way Mississippi”
  • Korean: “미시시피강”
  • Kurdish: “Mîsîsîpî”
  • Ladin: “Mississippi”
  • Latin: “Flumen Mississippiense”
  • Latin: “Mississippius”
  • Latvian: “Misisipi”
  • Limburgan: “Mississippi (reveer)”
  • Limburgan: “Mississippi”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Rio Mississippi”
  • Literary Chinese: “密西西比河”
  • Lithuanian: “Misisipė”
  • Lombard: “Mississippi (fium)”
  • Lombard: “Mississippi”
  • Low German: “Mississippi”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mississippi (Floss)”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mississippi River”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mississippi”
  • Macedonian: “Мисисипи”
  • Malagasy: “Mississipi”
  • Malagasy: “Mississippi”
  • Malay: “Sungai Mississippi”
  • Malayalam: “മിസിസിപ്പി നദി”
  • Marathi: “मिसिसिपी नदी”
  • Mazanderani: “می سی سی پی”
  • Mazanderani: “می‌سی‌سی‌پی درکا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Mississippi Ò̤”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mississippi Hô”
  • Mingrelian: “მისისიპი”
  • Mirandese: “Riu Mississippi”
  • Mongolian: “Миссисипи мөрөн”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لواد د لميسيسيپي”
  • Nauru: “Mississippi”
  • Nepali: “मिसिसिपी नदी”
  • Newari: “मिसिसिपि खुसि”
  • Newari: “मिसिसिपी खुसि”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mississippi River”
  • Northern Sami: “Mississippieatnu”
  • Northern Sami: “Mississippijohka”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mississippi (elv)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mississippi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mississippielva”
  • Norwegian: “Mississippi”
  • Nyanja: “Mtsinje wa Mississippi”
  • Obolo: “Misisipi”
  • Obolo: “Okwaan̄ Misisipi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mississipí”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܢܗܪܐ ܕܡܝܣܝܣܝܦܝ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Mississippi ēa”
  • Ossetian: “Миссисипи”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਿਸੀਸਿੱਪੀ ਦਰਿਆ”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਿੱਸੀਸਿੱਪੀ ਦਰਿਆ”
  • Persian: “رود می‌سی‌سی‌پی”
  • Persian: “رودخانه میسیسیپی”
  • Piemontese: “Mississippi”
  • Polish: “Missisipi”
  • Polish: “Mississippi”
  • Portuguese: “Mississípi”
  • Portuguese: “Mississippi”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Mississípi”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Mississippi”
  • Pushto: “مسي سي پي سيند”
  • Quechua: “Mississippi mayu”
  • Romanian: “Mississippi”
  • Romansh: “Mississippi”
  • Russia Buriat: “Миссисипи мүрэн”
  • Russian: “Pека Миссисипи”
  • Russian: “Миссисипи, дельта реки”
  • Russian: “Миссисипи”
  • Rusyn: “Міссісіпі”
  • Samogitian: “Mėsėsėpė (opės)”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱤᱥᱤᱥᱤᱯᱤ ᱜᱟᱰᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Mississippi”
  • Scots: “Mississippi River”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Mississippi”
  • Serbian: “Мисисипи”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mississippi”
  • Sicilian: “Mississipi”
  • Sicilian: “Mississippi”
  • Silesian: “Missisipi”
  • Sindhi: “مسيسپي ندي”
  • Skolt Sami: “Mississippijeänn”
  • Skolt Sami: “Mississippijokk”
  • Slovak: “Mississippi”
  • Slovenian: “Misisipi”
  • Somali: “Webiga Mississipi”
  • South Azerbaijani: “میسیسیپی چایی”
  • Spanish: “río Misisipi”
  • Spanish: “Río Misisipi”
  • Spanish: “río Mississippi”
  • Swahili: “Mto Mississippi”
  • Swedish: “Mississippifloden”
  • Swiss German: “Mississippi River”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog Mississippi”
  • Talysh: “Missisipi ru”
  • Tamil: “மிசிசிப்பி ஆறு”
  • Tatar: “Миссисипи (елга)”
  • Tatar: “Миссисипи”
  • Telugu: “మిసిసిపీ నది”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำมิสซิสซิปปี”
  • Tibetan: “མི་སི་སི་ཕི་གཙང་པོ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Mississippi River”
  • Turkish: “Mississippi Nehri”
  • Turkish: “Mississippi”
  • Turkmen: “Missisipi derýasy”
  • Ukrainian: “Міссісіпі”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Mississippi”
  • Urdu: “دریائے مسیسپی”
  • Uzbek: “Missisipi”
  • Uzbek: “Mississippi”
  • Venetian: “Mississippi”
  • Veps: “Mississipi”
  • Vietnamese: “sông Mississippi”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông Mississippi”
  • Võro: “Mississippi jõgi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salog Misisipi”
  • Welsh: “Afon Mississippi”
  • Western Frisian: “Mississippy”
  • Western Panjabi: “دریائے مسیسپی”
  • Wu Chinese: “密西西比河”
  • Yakut: “Миссисиипи”
  • Yiddish: “מיסיסיפי טייך”
  • Yue Chinese: “密西西比河”
  • “Mėsėsėpė”
  • “Mississippi jõgi”
  • “Mississippi, jume”
  • “मिसीसिपी नदी”

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