5 résultats pour "pontchartrain"
- Pontchartrain, lac.
- Pontchartrain, famille française de la noblesse de robe dont plusieurs membres ont rempli d'importantes charges.
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New Orleans - geography.
levees bordering Lake Pontchartrain. On the 17th Street Canal, a section about 90 m (about 300 ft) wide collapsed, allowing a torrent of water to enter the city. The rapidlyrising waters flooded more than 80 percent of New Orleans. The disaster prompted a mandatory evacuation of the entire city. A week after the storm, the U.S. Army Corpsof Engineers finished patching the 17th Street Canal levee and began pumping water out of the city. But by then the damage was catastrophic. The city’s low-lyin...
- Nouvelle-Orléans, La 1 PRÉSENTATION Nouvelle-Orléans, La, en anglais New Orleans, ville du sud-est des États-Unis, située dans le sud-est de l'État de la Louisiane, sur le lac Pontchartrain et sur le Mississippi.
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New Orleans - geography.
D Metropolitan Region The New Orleans metropolitan region covers 8,800 sq km (3,400 sq mi) and includes the counties—known in Louisiana as parishes— of Orleans, Jefferson, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Tammany, Saint James, and Plaquemines. At the center is the city of New Orleans, which is coextensive withOrleans Parish. It has a land area of 468 sq km (181 sq mi). Extending from this base are numerous suburban towns in the surrounding parishes. Metairie, Harahan...