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Geography: Louisiana cover 52,389 square miles, and (135,687 square kilometers ). Nine thousand eight hundred and twenty nine square miles (25,457 square kilometers) of the state is water.
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Geology: Louisiana land is a formed by sediment deposited by the Mississippi River and other rivers, fifty million years. Gulf of Mexico mixed with the water from the Mississippi River.
Hurricanes: Large hurricanes hitting Louisiana stretch back to the eightheeth century. I 1740, a hurricane that hit colonial Louisiana destroyed a large number of crops. The crops had to be replaced by imported stock.
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