Escatawppa

The Escatawpa rises in the wooded country west of the Tombigbee and winds southward toward the Gulf. Its name comes from a Choctaw expression for a place where cane is cut. After crossing the coastal plain, the river joins the Pascagoula, whose waters reach the Mississippi Sound. The Escatawpa belongs to a network of rivers fed by the streams and groundwater of the inland forests, carrying their waters through lowlands toward the sea.