Poverty Point
Poverty Point State Historic Site/Poverty Point National Monument is a prehistoric earthwork constructed by the Poverty Point culture, located in present-day northeastern Louisiana.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Park
- Description: prehistoric site of the Poverty Point culture in northeastern Louisiana, United States
- Also known as: “POPO” and “Poverty Point National Monument”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Epps.
Epps
Village
Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Epps is a village in West Carroll Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 358 at the 2020 census. Epps is situated 5 miles southwest of Poverty Point.
Poverty Point
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Vietnamese—“Poverty Point” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Poverty Point”
- Cebuano: “Poverty Point National Monument”
- Chinese: “poverty”
- Chinese: “波弗蒂角”
- Chinese: “波弗蒂角國家紀念區”
- Chinese: “波弗蒂角紀念土冢”
- Chinese: “波弗蒂角纪念土冢”
- Croatian: “Poverty Point”
- Czech: “Poverty Point”
- Dutch: “Poverty Point”
- Finnish: “Poverty Point”
- French: “Poverty Point”
- Georgian: “პოვერტი-პოინტის მიწაყრილები”
- German: “Poverty Point”
- Hebrew: “פוברטי פוינט”
- Hindi: “पोवर्टी पॉईन्ट”
- Italian: “Poverty Point”
- Japanese: “ポヴァティ・ポイント”
- Lithuanian: “Poverti Pointas”
- Lojban: “kampidjip.”
- Maltese: “Monument Nazzjonali ta‘ Poverty Point”
- Maltese: “Poverty Point”
- Maltese: “Sit Storiku Statali ta‘ Poverty Point”
- Maltese: “Tumbati Monumentali tal-Ħamrija ta‘ Poverty Point”
- Maltese: “Tumbati Monumentali tal-Ħamrija ta’ Poverty Point”
- Persian: “پاورتی پوینت”
- Polish: “Poverty Point”
- Portuguese: “Poverty Point”
- Russian: “Поверти-Пойнт”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Poverty Point”
- Spanish: “Poverty Point”
- Swedish: “Poverty Point nationalmonument”
- Turkish: “Poverty Point”
- Vietnamese: “Poverty Point”
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