List of rivers of Louisiana (U.S. state).

This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. (November 2019)

By drainage basin

This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.

Gulf of Mexico

East of the Mississippi

• Pearl River
  • Bogue Chitto River
• The Rigolets
  • Lake St. Catherine
    • Lake Pontchartrain
      • Lacombe Bayou
      • Tchefuncte River
        • Bogue Falaya
          • Abita River
      • Tangipahoa River
        • Sims Creek
      • Pass Manchac
        • Lake Maurepas
          • Tickfaw River
            • Natalbany River
              • Ponchatoula Creek
            • Blood River
          • Amite River
            • Bayou Manchac
            • Comite River
          • Blind River
            • Petite Amite River
              • New River
• Bayou Bienvenue

Mississippi River

• Mississippi River

Distributaries

• Bayou Lafourche
• Atchafalaya River
  • Bayou Cocodrie
  • Bayou Teche
    • 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

Tributaries

• Bayou Pierre[1]
• Coles Creek[2]
• Yazoo River[3]
• Red River

Red River

• Red River
  • Black River
    • Little River
      • Castor Creek
      • Dugdemona River
    • Tensas River
      • Bayou Macon
    • Ouachita River
      • Boeuf River
        • Bayou Bonne Idee
        • Bayou Lafourche (Boeuf River tributary)
        • Big Creek
      • Bayou D'Arbonne
        • Cornie Bayou
      • Bayou de Loutre
      • Bayou Bartholomew
  • Cane River
  • Saline Bayou
    • Black Lake Bayou
  • Bayou Pierre
    • Prairie River
  • Loggy Bayou
    • Flat River
      • Red Chute Bayou
        • Bodcau Bayou
    • Dorcheat Bayou
  • Cross Bayou
    • Twelvemile Bayou
      • Black Bayou

Gulf west of the Mississippi

• Vermilion River
  • Bayou Carencro
  • Bayou Fusilier
    • Bayou Bourbeux
• Mermentau River
  • Bayou Queue de Tortue
  • Bayou Nezpique
  • Bayou des Cannes
    • Bayou Mallet
  • Bayou Plaquemine Brule
    • Bayou Wikoff
• Calcasieu River
  • West Fork Calcasieu River
    • Houston River
  • Ouiski Chitto Creek
• Sabine River
  • Old River
  • Bayou Anacoco

Alphabetically

• Abita River
• Amite River
• Antoine Creek
• Atchafalaya River
• Bay Natchez
• Bayou Bartholomew
• Bayou Bienvenue
• Bayou Bourbeux
• Bayou Carencro
• Bayou Chicot
• Bayou Choupic
• Bayou Courtableau
• Bayou des Cannes
• Bayou des Glaises
• Bayou Fusilier
• Bayou Jack
• Bayou Lafourche, Mississippi River distributary
• Bayou Lafourche (Boeuf River tributary)
• Bayou Long
• Bayou Macon
• Bayou Mallet
• Bayou Manchac
• Bayou Nezpique
• Bayou Pierre
• Bayou Pierre
• Bayou Plaquemine Brule
• Bayou Plaquemine (Grand River tributary)
• Bayou Queue de Tortue
• Bayou Teche
• Bayou Wikoff
• Big Goddel Bayou
• Black Bayou
• Black Lake Bayou
• Black River
• Blind River
• Boeuf River
• Bogue Chitto River
• Bogue Falaya
• Calcasieu River
• Cane River
• Castor Creek
• Chopin Chute
• Coles Creek
• Comite River
• Dorcheat Bayou
• Dugdemona River
• Flat River
• Houston River
• Irish Bayou
• Little River - tributary of the Black (Ouachita) River
• Loggy Bayou
• Mermentau River
• Mississippi River
• Natalbany River
• New River
• Old River (Louisiana), in Pointe Coupee and West Feliciana parishes
• Old River (Sabine River tributary)
• Ouachita River
• Ouiski Chitto Creek
• Pass Manchac
• Pearl River
• Ponchatoula Creek
• Prairie River (Louisiana)
• Red River
• Rouge Bayou
• Rigolets
• Sabine River
• Saline Bayou
• Sims Creek
• Tangipahoa River
• Tchefuncte River
• Tensas River
• Tickfaw River
• Twelvemile Bayou
• Vermilion River
• Yazoo River

References

• USGS Geographic Names Information System
• USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Louisiana (1974)

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rivers of Louisiana.

• List of rivers in the United States