By drainage basin

Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean...

East of the Mississippi

• Pearl River
  • Bogue Chitto River
• The Rigolets
  • Lake St. Catherine
    • Lake Pontchartrain
      Lake Pontchartrain
      Lake Pontchartrain is a brackish estuary located in southeastern Louisiana. It is the second-largest inland saltwater body of water in the United States, after the Great Salt Lake in Utah, and the largest lake in Louisiana. As an estuary, Pontchartrain is not a true lake.It covers an area of with...
      
      
      • Lacombe Bayou
      • Tchefuncte River
        Tchefuncte River
        The Tchefuncte River drains into Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana in the United States. It is about long.In the 19th century it was an important commercial waterway, where building materials and other products of the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain were loaded to be shipped across the Lake to...
        
        
        • Bogue Falaya
          Bogue Falaya
          The Bogue Falaya, also known as the Bogue Falaya River, is a river in southeastern Louisiana in the United States. It is a tributary of the Tchefuncte River, which flows to Lake Pontchartrain...
          
          
          • Abita River
            Abita River
            The Abita River is a river in southeastern Louisiana in the United States. It is a tributary of the Bogue Falaya, which flows to the Tchefuncte River and then onto Lake Pontchartrain....
            
            
      • Tangipahoa River
        Tangipahoa River
        The Tangipahoa River originates northwest of McComb in southwest Mississippi, and runs south through Lake Tangipahoa in Percy Quin State Park before passing into southeast Louisiana. Its mouth opens into the northwest region of Lake Pontchartrain....
        
        
        • Sims Creek
          Sims Creek
          Sims Creek is a tributary of the Tangipahoa River in the 8th Ward of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. It flows generally southeast from near Robert, and is joined about halfway down its course by its longest tributary, P-Kaw-Shun Creek, which begins north of Lorraine and flows southwest, passing...
          
          
      • Pass Manchac
        • Lake Maurepas
          Lake Maurepas
          Lake Maurepas is located in southeastern Louisiana approximately halfway between New Orleans and Baton Rouge directly west of Lake Pontchartrain.-Namesake:...
          
          
          • Tickfaw River
            Tickfaw River
            The Tickfaw River runs from Amite County in southwest Mississippi to Livingston Parish in southeast Louisiana. Its mouth opens into Lake Maurepas, which conjoins with Lake Pontchartrain.Alternate/historical names and spellings:*Rio De San Vicente...
            
            
            • Natalbany River
              • Ponchatoula Creek
                Ponchatoula Creek
                Ponchatoula Creek is a tributary of the Natalbany River in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. The two waterways join where a section of the Natalbany forms the boundary between Tangipahoa Parish and Livingston Parish. Ponchatoula Creek originates west of Old US Highway 51, north of Independence...
                
                
            • Blood River
          • Amite River
            Amite River
            The Amite River is a tributary of Lake Maurepas in Mississippi and Louisiana in the United States. It is about long. It starts as two forks in southwestern Mississippi and flows south through Louisiana, passing Greater Baton Rouge, to Lake Maurepas. The lower of the river is navigable...
            
            
            • Bayou Manchac
              Bayou Manchac
              Bayou Manchac is an bayou in southeast Louisiana. This bayou was once a very important waterway linking the Mississippi River to the Amite River.-Exploration:...
              
              
            • Comite River
              Comite River
              The Comite River is a right bank tributary of the Amite River, with a confluence near the city of Denham Springs, east of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The river is long. Its drainage basin comprises approximately and includes portions of Wilkinson and Amite counties in Mississippi, and East Feliciana...
              
              
          • Blind River
            • Petite Amite River
              • New River
                New River (Louisiana)
                The New River is a waterway located in Louisiana in Ascension Parish. Its source is near the Mississippi River in Geismar where the two rivers were once connected. Before the levees were built to contain the Mississippi River, the New River was a distributary and a much larger river than it is...
                
                
• Bayou Bienvenue
  Bayou Bienvenue
  Bayou Bienvenue is a bayou in southeastern Louisiana. It runs along the political border between Orleans Parish and St. Bernard Parish to the east of New Orleans....
  
  

Distributaries

• Bayou Lafourche
  Bayou Lafourche
  Bayou Lafourche, originally called Chetimachas River, is a bayou in southeastern Louisiana, United States, that flows into the Gulf of Mexico. The first settlements of Acadians in southern Louisiana were near Bayou Lafourche and Bayou des Écores, which led to a close association of the bayou with...
  
  
• Atchafalaya River
  Atchafalaya River
  The Atchafalaya River is a distributary of the Mississippi River and Red River in south central Louisiana in the United States. It flows south, just west of the Mississippi River....
  
  
  • Bayou Cocodrie
  • Bayou Teche
    Bayou Teche
    The Bayou Teche is a waterway of great cultural significance in south central Louisiana in the United States. Bayou Teche was the Mississippi River's main course when it developed a delta about 2,800 to 4,500 years ago...
    
    
    • Bayou Boeuf
  • Bayou Long
    • Belle River
      • Big Goddel Bayou
        • Bay Natchez
          • Chopin Chute
            • Lower Grand River
              • Upper Grand River
              • Bayou Plaquemine
  • Rouge Bayou
    • Bayou Jack
  • Bayou des Glaises

Red River

• Red River
  • Black River
    • Little River
      Little River (Louisiana)
      The Little River is a tributary of the Ouachita River in central Louisiana in the United States. Via the Ouachita and Red rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River...
      
      
      • Castor Creek
        Castor Creek
        Castor Creek or Bayou Castor is a tributary of the Little River in north-central Louisiana in the United States. Via the Little, Ouachita and Red rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River....
        
        
      • Dugdemona River
        Dugdemona River
        The Dugdemona River is a tributary of the Little River in north-central Louisiana in the United States. Via the Little, Ouachita and Red rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River....
        
        
    • Tensas River
      Tensas River
      The Tensas River is a river in Louisiana in the United States. The river, known as Tensas Bayou in its upper reaches, begins in East Carroll Parish in the northeast corner of the state and runs roughly southwest for more or less in parallel with the Mississippi River...
      
      
      • Bayou Macon
        Bayou Macon
        Bayou Macon is a river in Arkansas and Louisiana, United States. It begins in Desha County, Arkansas, and flows south, between the Boeuf River to its west and the Mississippi River to its east, before joining the Tensas River south of Delhi, Louisiana. Bayou Macon is about long.L. D...
        
        
    • Ouachita River
      Ouachita River
      The Ouachita River is a river that runs south and east through the U.S. states of Arkansas and Louisiana, joining the Tensas River to form the Black River near Jonesville, Louisiana.-Course:...
      
      
      • Boeuf River
        Boeuf River
        The Boeuf River is a tributary of the Ouachita River in the U.S. states of Arkansas and Louisiana. The river is about long.The Boeuf River's name comes from the French word , which means "bull"....
        
        
        • Bayou Lafourche
        • Big Creek
      • Bayou D'Arbonne
        • Cornie Bayou
      • Bayou de Loutre
      • Bayou Bartholomew
        Bayou Bartholomew
        Bayou Bartholomew is the longest bayou in the world meandering approximately between two states. It contains over 100 aquatic species making it the second most diverse stream in North America. Known for its excellent bream, catfish, and crappie fishing, portions of the bayou are considered some of...
        
        
  • Cane River
    Cane River
    Cane River is a lake and river formed from a portion of the Red River that is located in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. In the 19th and 20th centuries, it has been best known as the site of a historic Creole de couleur culture that has centers upon the National Historic Landmark Melrose...
    
    
  • Saline Bayou
    Saline Bayou
    Saline Bayou is a tributary of the Red River in Louisiana in the United States. In 1986 it became the first blackwater river in the American South to have been designated in the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System...
    
    
    • Black Lake Bayou
      Black Lake Bayou
      Black Lake Bayou is a waterway in northwest Louisiana, USA, that extends from north of Gibsland and travels south to Clarence. The watershed covers much of northwest Louisiana. The bayou meanders its way through Claiborne Parish, Webster, Bienville, Red River and Natchitoches parishes...
      
      
  • Bayou Pierre
  • Loggy Bayou
    Loggy Bayou
    Loggy Bayou is a stream in northwestern Louisiana which connects Lake Bistineau with the Red River. Bistineau is the reservoir of Dorcheat Bayou, which flows southward from Nevada County, Arkansas, into Webster Parish...
    
    
    • Flat River
      • Red Chute Bayou
        • Bodcau Bayou
    • Dorcheat Bayou
      Dorcheat Bayou
      Dorcheat Bayou, also known as Bayou Dorcheat, is a stream in the USA that extends from Nevada County in southwestern Arkansas through Columbia County and into Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana before emptying into Lake Bistineau east of the village of Doyline. To its south, Lake Bistineau...
      
      
  • Cross Bayou
    Cross Bayou
    Cross Bayou is a river in Texas and Louisiana. It is a tributary of the Red River, part of the Mississippi River watershed.It rises in southeastern Harrison County, Texas, southeast of Marshall, and flows east into Caddo Parish, Louisiana...
    
    
    • Twelvemile Bayou
      • Black Bayou
        Black Bayou
        Black Bayou is a river in Texas and Louisiana. It is a tributary of Twelvemile Bayou, which feeds Cross Bayou and consequently the Red River and the Mississippi River. It rises in Cass County, Texas, north of Atlanta, and flows south past Atlanta, then southeast into Caddo Parish, Louisiana...
        
        

Gulf west of the Mississippi

• Vermilion River
  Vermilion River (Louisiana)
  The Vermilion River is a river in southern Louisiana in the United States. It is formed on the common boundary of Lafayette and St. Martin parishes by a confluence of small bayous flowing from St. Landry Parish, and flows generally southward through Lafayette and Vermilion parishes, past the...
  
  
  • Bayou Carencro
  • Bayou Fusilier
    • Bayou Bourbeux
• Mermentau River
  Mermentau River
  The Mermentau River is a river in southern Louisiana in the United States. It enters the Gulf of Mexico between Calcasieu Lake and Vermilion Bay on the Chenier Coastal Plain.The Mermentau River supplies freshwater for the Mermentau Basin...
  
  
  • Bayou Queue de Tortue
    Bayou Queue de Tortue
    Bayou Queue de Tortue is a waterway in the Mermentau River basin of southern Louisiana in the United States. The bayou is long and is partly navigable....
    
    
  • Bayou Nezpique
    Bayou Nezpique
    Bayou Nezpique is a small river located in the Mermentau River basin of south Louisiana, USA. The bayou is long and is navigable by small shallow-draft boats for of lower course.The area was first settled by the Attakapa Indian tribe...
    
    
  • Bayou des Cannes
    Bayou des Cannes
    Bayou des Cannes is a waterway in the Mermentau River basin of soutern Louisiana. The bayou is long and is navigable near the shallow-draft port at the mouth....
    
    
    • Bayou Mallet
  • Bayou Plaquemine Brule
    Bayou Plaquemine Brule
    Bayou Plaquemine Brule, historically spelled Plakemines is a waterway in the Mermentau River basin of south Louisiana. The bayou is long and is navigable for of its lower course.One of the first settlers of the area was Michel Comeau....
    
    
    • Bayou Wikoff
      Bayou Wikoff
      Bayou Wikoff is a bayou in southern Louisiana in the United States. It is named after William Wikoff, a large property owner in the area during the 1790s....
      
      
• Calcasieu River
  Calcasieu River
  The Calcasieu River is a river on the Gulf Coast of southwestern Louisiana, U.S.A.. Approximately long, it drains a largely rural area of forests and bayou country, meandering southward to the Gulf of Mexico. The name "Calcasieu" comes from the Native American Atakapa language katkosh, for...
  
  
  • West Fork Calcasieu River
    • Houston River
  • Ouiski Chitto Creek
    Ouiski Chitto Creek
    Ouiska Chitto Creek is an spring-fed creek located in Allen, Beauregard, and Vernon parishes, Louisiana, in the United States. It is a tributary to the Calcasieu River. It is located between Mittie and Reeves, Louisiana....
    
    
• Sabine River
  Sabine River (Texas-Louisiana)
  The Sabine River is a river, long, in the U.S. states of Texas and Louisiana. In its lower course, it forms part of the boundary between the two states and empties into Sabine Lake, an estuary of the Gulf of Mexico. The river formed part of the United States-Mexican international boundary during...
  
  
  • Old River
  • Bayou Anacoco

Alphabetically

• Abita River
  Abita River
  The Abita River is a river in southeastern Louisiana in the United States. It is a tributary of the Bogue Falaya, which flows to the Tchefuncte River and then onto Lake Pontchartrain....
  
  
• Amite River
  Amite River
  The Amite River is a tributary of Lake Maurepas in Mississippi and Louisiana in the United States. It is about long. It starts as two forks in southwestern Mississippi and flows south through Louisiana, passing Greater Baton Rouge, to Lake Maurepas. The lower of the river is navigable...
  
  
• Atchafalaya River
  Atchafalaya River
  The Atchafalaya River is a distributary of the Mississippi River and Red River in south central Louisiana in the United States. It flows south, just west of the Mississippi River....
  
  
• Bay Natchez
• Bayou Bartholomew
  Bayou Bartholomew
  Bayou Bartholomew is the longest bayou in the world meandering approximately between two states. It contains over 100 aquatic species making it the second most diverse stream in North America. Known for its excellent bream, catfish, and crappie fishing, portions of the bayou are considered some of...
  
  
• Bayou Bienvenue
  Bayou Bienvenue
  Bayou Bienvenue is a bayou in southeastern Louisiana. It runs along the political border between Orleans Parish and St. Bernard Parish to the east of New Orleans....
  
  
• Bayou Bourbeux
• Bayou Carencro
• Bayou Chicot
• Bayou Choupic
• Bayou Courtableau
• Bayou des Cannes
  Bayou des Cannes
  Bayou des Cannes is a waterway in the Mermentau River basin of soutern Louisiana. The bayou is long and is navigable near the shallow-draft port at the mouth....
  
  
• Bayou des Glaises
• Bayou Fusilier
• Bayou Jack
• Bayou Lafourche
  Bayou Lafourche
  Bayou Lafourche, originally called Chetimachas River, is a bayou in southeastern Louisiana, United States, that flows into the Gulf of Mexico. The first settlements of Acadians in southern Louisiana were near Bayou Lafourche and Bayou des Écores, which led to a close association of the bayou with...
  
  , Mississippi River distributary
• Bayou Lafourche (Boeuf River)
• Bayou Long
• Bayou Macon
  Bayou Macon
  Bayou Macon is a river in Arkansas and Louisiana, United States. It begins in Desha County, Arkansas, and flows south, between the Boeuf River to its west and the Mississippi River to its east, before joining the Tensas River south of Delhi, Louisiana. Bayou Macon is about long.L. D...
  
  
• Bayou Mallet
• Bayou Manchac
  Bayou Manchac
  Bayou Manchac is an bayou in southeast Louisiana. This bayou was once a very important waterway linking the Mississippi River to the Amite River.-Exploration:...
  
  
• Bayou Nezpique
  Bayou Nezpique
  Bayou Nezpique is a small river located in the Mermentau River basin of south Louisiana, USA. The bayou is long and is navigable by small shallow-draft boats for of lower course.The area was first settled by the Attakapa Indian tribe...
  
  
• Bayou Plaquemine Brule
  Bayou Plaquemine Brule
  Bayou Plaquemine Brule, historically spelled Plakemines is a waterway in the Mermentau River basin of south Louisiana. The bayou is long and is navigable for of its lower course.One of the first settlers of the area was Michel Comeau....
  
  
• Bayou Plaquemine (Grand River)
• Bayou Queue de Tortue
  Bayou Queue de Tortue
  Bayou Queue de Tortue is a waterway in the Mermentau River basin of southern Louisiana in the United States. The bayou is long and is partly navigable....
  
  
• Bayou Teche
  Bayou Teche
  The Bayou Teche is a waterway of great cultural significance in south central Louisiana in the United States. Bayou Teche was the Mississippi River's main course when it developed a delta about 2,800 to 4,500 years ago...
  
  
• Bayou Wikoff
  Bayou Wikoff
  Bayou Wikoff is a bayou in southern Louisiana in the United States. It is named after William Wikoff, a large property owner in the area during the 1790s....
  
  
• Big Goddel Bayou
• Black Bayou
  Black Bayou
  Black Bayou is a river in Texas and Louisiana. It is a tributary of Twelvemile Bayou, which feeds Cross Bayou and consequently the Red River and the Mississippi River. It rises in Cass County, Texas, north of Atlanta, and flows south past Atlanta, then southeast into Caddo Parish, Louisiana...
  
  
• Black Lake Bayou
  Black Lake Bayou
  Black Lake Bayou is a waterway in northwest Louisiana, USA, that extends from north of Gibsland and travels south to Clarence. The watershed covers much of northwest Louisiana. The bayou meanders its way through Claiborne Parish, Webster, Bienville, Red River and Natchitoches parishes...
  
  
• Black River
• Blind River
• Boeuf River
  Boeuf River
  The Boeuf River is a tributary of the Ouachita River in the U.S. states of Arkansas and Louisiana. The river is about long.The Boeuf River's name comes from the French word , which means "bull"....
  
  
• Bogue Chitto River
• Bogue Falaya
  Bogue Falaya
  The Bogue Falaya, also known as the Bogue Falaya River, is a river in southeastern Louisiana in the United States. It is a tributary of the Tchefuncte River, which flows to Lake Pontchartrain...
  
  
• Calcasieu River
  Calcasieu River
  The Calcasieu River is a river on the Gulf Coast of southwestern Louisiana, U.S.A.. Approximately long, it drains a largely rural area of forests and bayou country, meandering southward to the Gulf of Mexico. The name "Calcasieu" comes from the Native American Atakapa language katkosh, for...
  
  
• Cane River
• Castor Creek
  Castor Creek
  Castor Creek or Bayou Castor is a tributary of the Little River in north-central Louisiana in the United States. Via the Little, Ouachita and Red rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River....
  
  
• Chopin Chute
• Comite River
  Comite River
  The Comite River is a right bank tributary of the Amite River, with a confluence near the city of Denham Springs, east of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The river is long. Its drainage basin comprises approximately and includes portions of Wilkinson and Amite counties in Mississippi, and East Feliciana...
  
  
• Dorcheat Bayou
  Dorcheat Bayou
  Dorcheat Bayou, also known as Bayou Dorcheat, is a stream in the USA that extends from Nevada County in southwestern Arkansas through Columbia County and into Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana before emptying into Lake Bistineau east of the village of Doyline. To its south, Lake Bistineau...
  
  
• Dugdemona River
  Dugdemona River
  The Dugdemona River is a tributary of the Little River in north-central Louisiana in the United States. Via the Little, Ouachita and Red rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River....
  
  
• Flat River
• Houston River
• Irish Bayou
• Little River
  Little River (Louisiana)
  The Little River is a tributary of the Ouachita River in central Louisiana in the United States. Via the Ouachita and Red rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River...
  
   - tributary of the Black (Ouachita) River
• Loggy Bayou
  Loggy Bayou
  Loggy Bayou is a stream in northwestern Louisiana which connects Lake Bistineau with the Red River. Bistineau is the reservoir of Dorcheat Bayou, which flows southward from Nevada County, Arkansas, into Webster Parish...
  
  
• Mermentau River
  Mermentau River
  The Mermentau River is a river in southern Louisiana in the United States. It enters the Gulf of Mexico between Calcasieu Lake and Vermilion Bay on the Chenier Coastal Plain.The Mermentau River supplies freshwater for the Mermentau Basin...
  
  
• Mississippi River
  Mississippi River
  The Mississippi River is the largest river system in North America. Flowing entirely in the United States, this river rises in western Minnesota and meanders slowly southwards for to the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's watershed drains...
  
  
• Natalbany River
• New River
  New River (Louisiana)
  The New River is a waterway located in Louisiana in Ascension Parish. Its source is near the Mississippi River in Geismar where the two rivers were once connected. Before the levees were built to contain the Mississippi River, the New River was a distributary and a much larger river than it is...
  
  
• Old River (Louisiana)
  Old River (Louisiana)
  Old River, or Raccourci Old River, is a long ox-bow lake located in northern Pointe Coupee Parish and western West Feliciana Parish in Louisiana, USA. It encompassess approximately ....
  
  , in Pointe Coupee and West Feliciana parishes
• Old River (Sabine River)
• Ouachita River
  Ouachita River
  The Ouachita River is a river that runs south and east through the U.S. states of Arkansas and Louisiana, joining the Tensas River to form the Black River near Jonesville, Louisiana.-Course:...
  
  
• Ouiski Chitto Creek
  Ouiski Chitto Creek
  Ouiska Chitto Creek is an spring-fed creek located in Allen, Beauregard, and Vernon parishes, Louisiana, in the United States. It is a tributary to the Calcasieu River. It is located between Mittie and Reeves, Louisiana....
  
  
• Pass Manchac
• Pearl River
• Ponchatoula Creek
  Ponchatoula Creek
  Ponchatoula Creek is a tributary of the Natalbany River in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. The two waterways join where a section of the Natalbany forms the boundary between Tangipahoa Parish and Livingston Parish. Ponchatoula Creek originates west of Old US Highway 51, north of Independence...
  
  
• Red River
• Rouge Bayou
• Rigolets
  Rigolets
  The Rigolets is a 12.9 kilometer long strait in Louisiana.It begins at and follows a generally eastward course to Lake Borgne, which is a lagoon in the Gulf of Mexico, where it ends at . Along with nearby Chef Menteur Pass, the Rigolets connects Lake Pontchartrain and Lake St. Catherine to Lake...
  
  
• Sabine River
• Saline Bayou
  Saline Bayou
  Saline Bayou is a tributary of the Red River in Louisiana in the United States. In 1986 it became the first blackwater river in the American South to have been designated in the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System...
  
  
• Sims Creek
  Sims Creek
  Sims Creek is a tributary of the Tangipahoa River in the 8th Ward of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. It flows generally southeast from near Robert, and is joined about halfway down its course by its longest tributary, P-Kaw-Shun Creek, which begins north of Lorraine and flows southwest, passing...
  
  
• Tangipahoa River
  Tangipahoa River
  The Tangipahoa River originates northwest of McComb in southwest Mississippi, and runs south through Lake Tangipahoa in Percy Quin State Park before passing into southeast Louisiana. Its mouth opens into the northwest region of Lake Pontchartrain....
  
  
• Tchefuncte River
  Tchefuncte River
  The Tchefuncte River drains into Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana in the United States. It is about long.In the 19th century it was an important commercial waterway, where building materials and other products of the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain were loaded to be shipped across the Lake to...
  
  
• Tensas River
  Tensas River
  The Tensas River is a river in Louisiana in the United States. The river, known as Tensas Bayou in its upper reaches, begins in East Carroll Parish in the northeast corner of the state and runs roughly southwest for more or less in parallel with the Mississippi River...
  
  
• Tickfaw River
  Tickfaw River
  The Tickfaw River runs from Amite County in southwest Mississippi to Livingston Parish in southeast Louisiana. Its mouth opens into Lake Maurepas, which conjoins with Lake Pontchartrain.Alternate/historical names and spellings:*Rio De San Vicente...
  
  
• Twelvemile Bayou
• Vermilion River
  Vermilion River (Louisiana)
  The Vermilion River is a river in southern Louisiana in the United States. It is formed on the common boundary of Lafayette and St. Martin parishes by a confluence of small bayous flowing from St. Landry Parish, and flows generally southward through Lafayette and Vermilion parishes, past the...