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Bayou Nwa

Bayou Nwa is a constituent region of southeastern Louisiana, consisting of bayous fed by the Mississippi River and the Ouachita River. Its name means "black bayou" in Cajun (possibly named for the large African-American population of the region), and it included the rural parishes of Washington, St. Tammany, St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. Charles, Lafourche, Terrebonne, St. Mary, Iberia, Vermilion, St. Martin, Assumption, St. James, St. John the Baptist, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana, East Feliciana, West Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge, Livingston, St. Helena, and Tangipahoa. The region was flat, low-lying, and full of hardwood trees and mangroves in the swamp waters, while the rivers were full of silt and mud; they were traversed by roadways elevated on boardwalks. By the 1890s, the Bayou Nwa region encompassed Acadiana, the Florida Parishes, and parts of the Greater New Orleans area, while it excluded the booming city of New Orleans itself.

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