Watson Brake
Watson Brake is an archaeological site in present-day Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, from the Archaic period. Dated to about 5400 years ago, Watson Brake is considered the oldest earthwork mound complex in North America.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Heironymous Rowe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Wetland
- Description: archaeological site in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, United States
- Address: LA
Watson Brake
- Categories: archaeological site and body of water
- Location: Ouachita, Louisiana, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
32.36948° or 32° 22′ 10″ northLongitude
-92.14909° or 92° 8′ 57″ westElevation
59 feet (18 metres)Open location code
86499V92+Q9OpenStreetMap ID
way 827626461OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wetland
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Swedish—“Watson Brake” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Уотсан-Брэйк”
- Cebuano: “Watson Brake”
- Dutch: “Watson Brake”
- Finnish: “Watson Brake”
- French: “Watson Brake”
- German: “Watson Brake”
- Italian: “Watson Brake”
- Low German: “Watson Brake”
- Mainfränkisch: “Watson Brake”
- Russian: “Уотсон-Брейк”
- Swedish: “Watson Brake”
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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 “Watson Brake”. Photo: Heironymous Rowe, CC BY-SA 4.0.