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Ouachita River

The Ouachita River is a 605-mile-long river that runs south and east through the states of and , joining the to form the Black River near . It is the 25th-longest river in the United States.
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  • Type: River
  • Description: river in the south-central United States
  • Also known as: “Auchita River”, “La Riviere du Ouachita”, “Ouachitta River”, “Ouaciata River”, “Ouashita River”, “Ouchatau River”, “Ouchatia River”, “Ouchiata River”, “Ouchita River”, “Ouchitau River”, “Ouchitaw River”, “Ouichata River”, “Ouichita River”, “Ouichitta River”, “Oushitaw River”, “Owa Chiata”, “Quachita River”, “Rio Ouachitta”, “Riviere du Ouachita”, “Silver River”, “Wachita River”, “Washata River”, “Washataw River”, “Washita River”, “Washitaw River”, and “Washitey River”

Ouachita River

Latitude
31.67707° or 31° 40′ 38″ north
Longitude
-91.80681° or 91° 48′ 25″ west
Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)
Open location code
863CM5GV+R7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 993760072
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­river
Geo­Names ID
4336237
Wiki­data ID
Q2041614
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Satellite Map

Discover Ouachita River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Ouachita River” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نهر أواتشيتا”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Ouachita”
  • Catalan: “Ouachita”
  • Cebuano: “Ouachita River (suba)”
  • Cebuano: “Ouachita River”
  • Chinese: “沃希托河”
  • Chuvash: “Уошито (юханшыв)”
  • Chuvash: “Уошито”
  • Danish: “Ouachita River”
  • Dutch: “Ouachita River”
  • Dutch: “Ouachita”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر اواكيتا”
  • Esperanto: “Ouachita”
  • French: “Ouachita River”
  • French: “Ouachita”
  • French: “rivière Ouachita”
  • Georgian: “უოჩიტა”
  • German: “Ouachita River”
  • Hebrew: “נהר וושיטה”
  • Irish: “Abhainn Ouachita”
  • Italian: “Ouachita”
  • Japanese: “ウォシタ川”
  • Japanese: “ブラック川”
  • Japanese: “ワシタ川”
  • Lithuanian: “Vošita”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ouachita”
  • Norwegian: “Ouachita”
  • Polish: “Ouachita River”
  • Russian: “Уошито (приток Блэк-Ривера)”
  • Russian: “Уошито (приток Ред-Ривера)”
  • Russian: “Уошито”
  • Spanish: “Rio Ouachita”
  • Spanish: “río Ouachita”
  • Spanish: “Río Ouachita”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำวาชิตอ”
  • Ukrainian: “Вашіта”
  • Venetian: “Ouachita”
  • Welsh: “Afon Ouachita”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ouachita River”. Photo: Robert Nunnally, CC BY 2.0.