What is the geography of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana?
The parish has a total area of 1,530 square kilometerkm sq (591 square miles). 1,444 km sq (557 mi sq) of it is land and 86 km sq (33 mi sq) of it (5.64%) is water. The land is mainly made up of prairies, but there are some swampy areas in the western part near the Atchafalaya River, and a few low bluffs. It has been determined that Pointe Coupee’s levees lining the Mississippi River are the best maintained in the state of Louisiana. The Parish is home to the tallest smokestack towers in the state; the Triplet smokestacks at the Big Cajun 2 Plant along river road can be seen from miles around. At night, the Airplane warning lights at the top of them can be seen clearly from the Interstate 10 Horace Wilkinson Bridge in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, some 40 miles away. If set side by side, the towers would dwarf the famed state capital building by a wide margin.
