Watappo

Wetappo Creek flows through the low country of the northern Gulf coast into East Bay, an arm of St Andrew Bay. Pine flatwoods and wetlands cover much of the surrounding basin, where streams descend toward the sheltered coastal waters. The Chacato lived in the broader country west of the Apalachicola River; in the seventeenth century their villages and Spanish missions lay inland among the rivers and woods of the Florida panhandle.