The Atchafalaya Basin (pronounced "Chaff-Uh-Lie-Uh — the "A" is silent) is America's largest swamp, covering almost 1 million acres of wetlands located roughly between Baton Rouge and Lafayette.

It spans approximately 1,200 miles, stretching from Florida to Texas, and is home to the largest swamp in America, the Atchafalaya River Basin. Atchafalaya covers more than a million acres of ...

Narrator] The Atchafalaya River Basin is America's largest river swamp and Louisiana's first line of defense against the extreme weather that threatens the Gulf Coast. How does this swamp and its ...

Proponents of the ban argue that mining would damage the swamp's ecosystem and ... of a House subcommittee that the largest blackwater wetland in North America deserves and needs protection ...