Bogue Chitto

The Bogue Chitto flows south from Mississippi into Louisiana, joining the Pearl River before its waters reach the Gulf of Mexico. Its name comes from Choctaw words for a large creek. Hardwood forests cover much of the river’s bottomland, while wooded hills rise above stretches of the valley. The river joins a network of channels and wetlands in the Pearl basin, a landscape long inhabited by Indigenous peoples including the Choctaw and their neighbours.