Opelousas
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 23,200 residents
- Description: parish seat of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States
- Also known as: “Les Opelousas”, “Opelousas, LA”, and “Opelousas, Louisiana”
- Postal codes: 70570 and 70571
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rural African American Museum and St. Landry Parish Airport.
Rural African American Museum
Museum
The Rural African American Museum is a museum in Opelousas that focuses on the history of African Americans living in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States, from the American Civil War to the present.
St. Landry Parish Airport
Aerodrome
St. Landry Parish Airport, also known as Ahart Field, is a public use airport located two nautical miles northwest of the central business district of Opelousas, a city in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Opelousas
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: St. Landry, Louisiana, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.5335° or 30° 32′ 1″ northLongitude
-92.0815° or 92° 4′ 53″ westPopulation
23,200Elevation
66 feet (20 metres)IATA airport code
OPLUnited Nations Location Code
US OPLOpen location code
8629GWM9+C9OpenStreetMap ID
node 151938684OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
4336153Wikidata ID
Q1154039
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Opelousas” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أوبلوساس (لويزيانا)”
- Arabic: “أوبلوساس”
- Basque: “Opelousas”
- Bulgarian: “Опелусас”
- Catalan: “Opelousas”
- Cebuano: “Opelousas”
- Chechen: “Опелусас”
- Chinese: “Opelousas”
- Chinese: “奥珀卢萨斯”
- Chinese: “奧珀盧薩斯”
- Czech: “Opelousas”
- Dagbani: “Opelousas”
- Danish: “Opelousas”
- Dutch: “Opelousas”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوبلوساس”
- French: “Opelousas”
- French: “Opélousas”
- German: “Opelousas”
- Gilaki: “آپلۊساس (لۊئيزيانا)”
- Gilaki: “آپلۊساس”
- Haitian: “Opelousas, Lwizyana”
- Haitian: “Opelousas”
- Hebrew: “אופלאוסס”
- Hungarian: “Opelousas”
- Irish: “Opelousas”
- Italian: “Opelousas”
- Japanese: “オペルーサス”
- Ladin: “Opelousas”
- Mazanderani: “آپلوسس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Opelousas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Opelousas”
- Norwegian: “Opelousas”
- Persian: “آپلوسس، لوئیزیانا”
- Persian: “آپلوسس”
- Polish: “Opelousas”
- Portuguese: “Opelousas”
- Russian: “Опелусас (Луизиана)”
- Russian: “Опелусас”
- Serbian: “Opelousas, Louisiana”
- Serbian: “Opelousas”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Opelousas, Louisiana”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Opelousas”
- Silesian: “Opelousas”
- Slovak: “Opelousas”
- Slovenian: “Opelousas”
- South Azerbaijani: “آپلوسس، لوئیزیانا”
- Spanish: “Opelousas (Luisiana)”
- Spanish: “Opelousas”
- Swahili: “Opelousas, Louisiana”
- Swahili: “Opelousas”
- Swedish: “Opelousas”
- Tatar: “Опелусас”
- Turkish: “Opelousas, Louisiana”
- Turkish: “Opelousas”
- Ukrainian: “Опелусас”
- Urdu: “اوپیلوساس، لوزیانا”
- Urdu: “اوپیلوساس”
- Uzbek: “Opelousa”
- Vietnamese: “Opelousas, Louisiana”
- Vietnamese: “Opelousas”
- Volapük: “Opelousas”
- Waray (Philippines): “Opelousas, Louisiana”
- Waray (Philippines): “Opelousas”
- Welsh: “Opelousas, Louisiana”
- Welsh: “Opelousas”
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