Ouachita River
The Ouachita River is a 605-mile-long river that runs south and east through the U.S. states of Arkansas and Louisiana, joining the Tensas River to form the Black River near Jonesville, Louisiana. It is the 25th-longest river in the United States.
- 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 Ouachita”, “Rio Ouachitta”, “Riviere du Ouachita”, “Silver River”, “Wachita River”, “Washata River”, “Washataw River”, “Washita River”, “Washitaw River”, “Washitey River”, “Уошито (приток Блэк-Ривера)”, “Уошито (приток Ред-Ривера)”, “ウォシタ川”, and “ブラック川”
Ouachita River
- Category: body of water
- Location: Catahoula, Louisiana, South, United States, North America
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
OpenStreetMap feature
water=river
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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”
- French: “rivière Ouachita”
- Georgian: “უოჩიტა”
- German: “Ouachita River”
- Hebrew: “נהר וושיטה”
- Hindi: “वाशिटा नदी”
- Irish: “Abhainn Ouachita”
- Italian: “Ouachita”
- Japanese: “ワシタ川”
- Lithuanian: “Vošita”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ouachita”
- Norwegian: “Ouachita”
- Polish: “Ouachita River”
- Russian: “Уошито”
- Spanish: “río Ouachita”
- Spanish: “Río Ouachita”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำวาชิตอ”
- Ukrainian: “Вашіта”
- Venetian: “Ouachita”
- Welsh: “Afon Ouachita”
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