{{Distinguish|Bogue Faliah|Bogue Fallah}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox river | name = Bogue Falaya | name_native = | name_native_lang = | name_other = | name_etymology = <!---------------------- IMAGE & MAP --> | image = Wooden bridge crossing the Bogue Falaya River near Covington, Louisiana.jpg | image_caption = Wooden bridge crossing the Bogue Falaya River near Covington, Louisiana, 1910s. | map = {{maplink|from=Bogue Falaya.map |type=line |frame=yes |plain=yes |frame-align=center |frame-width=270 |frame-height=200}} | map_size = | map_caption = Bogue Falaya | pushpin_map = | pushpin_map_size = | pushpin_map_caption= <!---------------------- LOCATION --> | subdivision_type1 = Country | subdivision_name1 = United States | subdivision_type2 = State | subdivision_name2 = Louisiana | subdivision_type3 = Parishes | subdivision_name3 = {{hlist |Washington |St. Tammany}} | subdivision_type4 = | subdivision_name4 = | subdivision_type5 = | subdivision_name5 = <!---------------------- PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS --> | length = {{convert|28|mi|km|abbr=on}} | width_min = | width_avg = | width_max = | depth_min = | depth_avg = | depth_max = | discharge1_location= | discharge1_min = | discharge1_avg = | discharge1_max = <!---------------------- BASIN FEATURES --> | source1 = | source1_location = Washington Parish, Louisiana | source1_coordinates= {{coord|30|42|11|N|90|09|55|W|display=inline}} | source1_elevation = | mouth = Tchefuncte River | mouth_location = Covington, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana | mouth_coordinates = {{coord|30|26|23|N|90|06|59|W|display=inline,title}} | mouth_elevation = | progression = | river_system = | basin_size = | tributaries_left = Abita River | tributaries_right = | custom_label = | custom_data = | extra = | city = Covington }}

The '''Bogue Falaya''', also known as the '''Bogue Falaya River''', is a {{convert|28|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}}<ref name=NHD>U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. [http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ The National Map] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329155652/http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ |date=2012-03-29 }}, accessed June 20, 2011</ref> river in southeastern Louisiana in the United States.<ref name=Columbia>[http://www.bartleby.com/69/85/B07985.html Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050825172438/http://www.bartleby.com/69/85/B07985.html |date=August 25, 2005 }}</ref> It is a tributary of the Tchefuncte River, which flows to Lake Pontchartrain. The river flows through an area of mixed pine-hardwood and bottomland hardwood forests on the Gulf Coastal Plain.<ref name=deq>Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (2002). [http://www.deq.louisiana.gov/portal/tabid/2200/Default.aspx State of Louisiana Water Quality Management Plan] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061009220958/http://www.deq.louisiana.gov/portal/tabid/2200/Default.aspx |date=2006-10-09 }}: [http://www.deq.louisiana.gov/portal/Portals/0/planning/305b/2002/pdf/305b-AppenidixB.pdf Appendix B: Descriptions of Louisiana's Natural and Scenic Rivers (PDF)]</ref>

The Bogue Falaya rises in southwestern Washington Parish and flows generally south-southeastwardly through western St. Tammany Parish, past Covington, where it collects the Abita River.<ref name=DeLorme>DeLorme (2003). ''Louisiana Atlas & Gazetteer''. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. {{ISBN|0-89933-286-2}}</ref> It joins the Tchefuncte River about <span style="white-space:nowrap">10&nbsp;miles&nbsp;(16&nbsp;km)</span> upstream of that river's mouth at Lake Pontchartrain.<ref name=Columbia/>

The name is derived from the Choctaw words ''bogu'', “river,” and ''falaya'', "long."<ref>{{cite book |title=The Choctaw of Bayou Lacomb, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana |last=Bushnell |first=D.I. |year=1909 |publisher=Government Printing Office |location=Washington |url=https://archive.org/details/choctawbayoulac00bushgoog |page=[https://archive.org/details/choctawbayoulac00bushgoog/page/n21 7] }} ''No copyright in the United States''.</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Leeper|first=Clare D'Artois|title=Louisiana Place Names: Popular, Unusual, and Forgotten Stories of Towns, Cities, Plantations, Bayous, and Even Some Cemeteries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHeeUa0xNxcC&pg=PA42|date=19 October 2012|publisher=LSU Press|isbn=978-0-8071-4740-5|page=42}}</ref>

A portion of the Bogue Falaya in St. Tammany Parish has been designated a "Natural and Scenic River" by the state government of Louisiana.<ref name=deq/>

==Variant names and spellings== According to the Geographic Names Information System, the Bogue Falaya has also been known historically as:<ref>{{Gnis|560238}}</ref> {{div col|colwidth=18em}} *Bogue Falaia *Bogue Falaya River *Bogue Falia *Bogue Faliah *Bogue Fallaya *Bogue Faylia *Bogue Phalia *Bouge Filia *Bouge Filiah *Bougue Falaia *Buck-Palaya Arroyo *Long River {{div col end}}

==See also== *List of Louisiana rivers

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