Why does the Red River suddenly just name change to the Atchafalaya River?

Yeaux kneaux why…

It’s the Native American Skin Tone river now

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It’s the Native American Skin Tone river now

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Commander River.

Naming rivers is more philosophical than scientific, but in this case, they're distinct rivers. Red River would naturally join the Mississippi and Atchafalaya was its own thing. I feel like every Louisianan should know about this considering the potential disaster situation

My family has been fishing there before the ORCS was built. This picture always amazed me

Yeah, and what's up with the Black River? Can't they just let the Ouachita go all the way to the Red? I'm telling you, the Black River confluincing with the Red River is just flat out miscegeny.

The Chattahoochee turns into The Appalachicola at the Fla / Ga line.

In a prior millennium, the Red River and Mississippi River were separate, parallel rivers running to the Gulf.

The Mississippi River meandered to the west and intercepted the Red River, cutting it in two. The upper Red River became a tributary of the Mississippi River, and the lower Red River became a distributary of the Mississippi River.

The lower Red River came to be known as the Atchafalaya River after European settlement in North America after all of this had already happened since they appeared to be separate rivers at that point.

The Atchafalaya River gradually gained more and more of the Mississippi River’s flow in the following centuries. It would have become the main channel of the Mississippi River by the end of the 20th century if left unchecked and so the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the Old River Control Structure to keep the Mississippi flowing in its current path through Baton Rouge and New Orleans. When they built the Old River structure, they reconfigured the Red River to flow into the Atchafalaya again like it did over a thousand years ago.

Ouachita & Black Rivers say "Hold my Beer"...