Coushatta
Coushatta, nestled on the banks of the Red River, is a small, quiet town. Founded in the 1870s, Coushatta serves as the heart of Red River Parish. While many of the structures of its past have long since faded, there are still a handful of markers in and out of town that indicate the town's heritage and its role in local and state history.
- Type: Village with 1,750 residents
- Description: town and the parish seat of Red River Parish, Louisiana, United States
- Also known as: “Coushatta (Luisiana)”, “Coushatta Chite”, “Coushatta, LA”, and “Coushatta, Louisiana”
- Postal code: 71019
Coushatta
- Categories: town in the United States, Rural community (local government), county seat, and locality
- Location: Red River, Northern Louisiana, Louisiana, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.0149° or 32° 0′ 54″ north
Longitude
-93.3421° or 93° 20′ 32″ west
Population
1,750
Elevation
144 feet (44 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US CH7
Open location code
86482M75+X5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Coushatta” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كوشاتا”
- Basque: “Coushatta”
- Catalan: “Coushatta”
- Cebuano: “Coushatta”
- Chechen: “Кушатта”
- Chinese: “考沙塔”
- Dutch: “Coushatta”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كوشاتا”
- French: “Coshatta”
- French: “Coushatta”
- German: “Coushatta”
- Gilaki: “کوشاتا (لۊئيزيانا)”
- Gilaki: “کوشاتا”
- Haitian: “Coushatta, Lwizyana”
- Haitian: “Coushatta”
- Hungarian: “Coushatta”
- Irish: “Coushatta”
- Italian: “Coushatta”
- Japanese: “クシャッタ”
- Ladin: “Coushatta”
- Limburgan: “Coushatta”
- Mazanderani: “کوشاتا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Coushatta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Coushatta”
- Norwegian: “Coushatta”
- Persian: “کوشاتا”
- Persian: “کووشاتا، لوئیزیانا”
- Persian: “کووشاتا”
- Polish: “Coushatta”
- Portuguese: “Coushatta”
- Romanian: “Coushatta”
- Russian: “Коашатта”
- Russian: “Кошатта”
- Serbian: “Coushatta, Louisiana”
- Serbian: “Coushatta”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Coushatta, Louisiana”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Coushatta”
- South Azerbaijani: “کوشاتا، لوئیزیانا”
- Spanish: “Coushatta”
- Swedish: “Coushatta, Louisiana”
- Swedish: “Coushatta”
- Tatar: “Кушатта”
- Ukrainian: “Кушатта”
- Urdu: “کوشاٹا، لوزیانا”
- Volapük: “Coushatta”
- Welsh: “Coushatta, Louisiana”
- Welsh: “Coushatta”
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