Acadiana
Acadiana is a region of Louisiana, in the south and south west of the state. It is sometimes called "Cajun Country", noted for its distinctive culture. This is the birthplace of Cajun cuisine, Cajun music, and Zydeco music.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Lafayette and Lake Charles.
Lafayette
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Lafayette is a city in Louisiana. It's the unofficial capital of Acadiana or Cajun Country. This flourishing moderate sized city is home to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Lake Charles
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Lake Charles is the second-largest city in the Acadiana region of Louisiana, with 87,000 residents in 2022. It is well known for gaming and the great outdoors, culinary delights and rhythm and blues.
Opelousas
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Opelousas is the parish seat of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, and is one of the former capitals of Louisiana. Opelousas is in the south Louisiana area known as "Acadiana", the center of Cajun culture in Louisiana.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as River Parishes and South Central Louisiana.
River Parishes
The River Parishes are the Louisiana parishes that line the Mississippi River in the eastern part of Acadiana, from the Mississippi state line to just outside the New Orleans metro area.
South Central Louisiana
South Central Louisiana is a part of "Acadiana," the name given to the region of southern Louisiana that is the home of the Cajun people. Everything that made Cajun culture popular came from this region: food, music, literature, and of course, the unique variant of French spoken here.
Southwest Louisiana
Southwest Louisiana is the vibrant "Heel of the Boot" in the southwestern corner of Louisiana. It is a land of contrasts: bountiful culture, amazing food, and colorful annual festivals that get bigger every year; but the Southwest also has a quickly vanishing coastline and equally quick vanishing wetlands environment.
Cajun Prairie
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The Cajun Prairie is the name of the inland area between the marshes to the southwest around Lake Charles, the pine forests of central Louisiana, and the bayous and swamps to the southeast.
Coastal Acadiana
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Coastal Acadiana is the southeastern most area of the Acadiana region of Louisiana. It comprises those parishes and towns closest to southeastern Louisiana coast, and as such, many of the activities around here revolve around fishing, both in the wetlands and off the coast.
Acadiana
- Type: Region with 1,880,000 residents
- Description: French Louisiana region that is home to a large Francophone population
- Also known as: “Acadiane”, “Cajun Country”, “L’Acadiane”, and “The Heart of Acadiana”
- Location: Louisiana, South, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Acadiana” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أكاديانا”
- Cajun French: “Acadiane”
- Cajun French: “L’Acadiane”
- Cajun French: “Pays Cadien”
- Chinese: “阿卡迪那”
- Dutch: “Acadiana”
- Finnish: “Acadiana”
- French: “Acadiana”
- French: “Acadiane (Louisiane)”
- French: “Acadiane”
- French: “Acadie du Sud”
- French: “Pays cadien”
- French: “Pays Cadien”
- German: “Acadiana”
- German: “Cajun-Land”
- German: “Cajunland”
- Indonesian: “Acadiana”
- Irish: “Acadiana”
- Italian: “Acadiana”
- Japanese: “アケイディアナ”
- Kirghiz: “Акадиана”
- Latin: “Acadiana”
- Narom: “Acadiane”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Acadiana”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Acadiana”
- Persian: “آکادیانا، لوئیزیانا”
- Persian: “اکادیانا”
- Polish: “Akadiana”
- Portuguese: “Acadiana”
- Russian: “Акадиана”
- Spanish: “Acadiana”
- Spanish: “Acadiane”
- Spanish: “Pais de los Cajunes”
- Spanish: “País de los Cajunes”
- Swedish: “Acadiana”
- Turkish: “Acadiana”
- Turkish: “Akadyana’nın Kalbi”
- Turkish: “Akadyana”
- Turkish: “L’Acadiane”
- Ukrainian: “Акадіана”
- Venetian: “Acadiana”
- Welsh: “Acadiana”
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