cultural heritage- the combination of coastal Louisiana 's various ethnic groups and their interaction with religion, geography, and environment leads to our unique "way of life".
                                                            
For example:  La Fete D'Ecologie, an annual estuary festival to share our estuarine culture through a outdoor event that focuses on our natural environment and our interaction with the environment.

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Some of the most diverse and fertile habitats in the world exist within the wedge-shaped area between the Mississippi and Atchafayla rivers.

 

The Barataria and Terrebonne Basins contain levees, forests, swamps, marshes, islands, bays, bayous, and other habitats. Although the 602,000 people who live in the estuary trace their heritage to several continents, they share a common love of this land.  Native Americans  inhabited this region for thousands of years.  Europeans and Africans arrived in the late 1700s.  Asian and Central American are the newcomers to the region.

 

Regardless of origin, all within the estuary have learned to use the land's resources and to adapt to nature's challenges to become a strong rich culture of its own.

                                               

  • Native Americans 
  • French 
  • German 
  • Novia Scotia 
  • Haitian 
  • African 
  • Asian 
  • Central American

 

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Citation BTNEP Report #23  Land Use and Socioeconomic Status and Trends in the Barataria Terrebonne Estuarine System

 
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