Baton Rouge is about 80 miles upriver of New Orleans, which is about 50 miles northwest of the lower Mississippi River delta.
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New Orleans
New Orleans is in the Mississippi River Delta.
The Mississippi river is located in the city of New Orleans in the state of Louisiana.
Louisiana is cut in two by the Mississippi River. The bayous are mostly backwaters of the Mighty Mississippi. And New Orleans is built on the delta of the river.
The delta is located in southeast Louisiana, southeast of New Orleans, with offshore barrier islands that extend south of the state of Mississippi in the Gulf of Mexico.
Baton Rouge is about 80 miles upriver of New Orleans, which is about 50 miles northwest of the lower Mississippi River delta.
The mouth of a river is the point at which it terminates by draining into a lake or the sea. The mouth of the Mississippi is therefore the Mississippi delta near New Orleans.
New Orleans stands on the Mississippi river.
The delta is located in southeast Louisiana, southeast of New Orleans, with offshore barrier islands that extend south of the state of Mississippi in the Gulf of Mexico.
It's mouth is at the Gulf of Mexico (New Orleans, LA)
The Mississippi River reaches the Gulf of Mexico about 160km, or 100 miles, downstream from the city of New Orleans. The region is called the Plaquemines-Balize delta.