Allemands Lake

Lac des Allemands lies west of the lower Mississippi amid the swamps and bayous of southeastern Louisiana. Its waters pass through Bayou des Allemands toward Lake Salvador and the coastal marshes. The French name means Lake of the Germans, recalling immigrants who settled in the surrounding region during the eighteenth century. Shallow water, cypress swamps and the connected bayous make the lake part of a freshwater landscape that gradually gives way to the marshes near the Gulf.