Salvador Lake

Lake Salvador lies southwest of the lower Mississippi in a country of swamps, bayous and coastal marshes. Bayou des Allemands connects it with the lake of the same name farther inland, while other waterways lead south toward the Gulf. An early nineteenth-century map called it Lake Ouacha, a name associated with the Washa people who lived along Bayou Lafourche. Its shallow waters form part of the broad wetland basin behind the coast.