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Bayou Teche is a 125-mile-long (201km) waterway of great cultural significance in south central Louisiana. It begins in Port Barre (west of Baton Rouge) and flows southward to Patterson (almost to the Gulf of Mexico). The name "Teche" is a Chitimacha Indian word meaning "snake", related to the bayou's twists and turns resembling a snake's movement. The Chitimacha tell an ancient story of how the snake attacked their villages, and it took many warriors many years to kill it. Where the huge carcass lay and decomposed, the depression it left behind filled with water to become the bayou. This image is of the Teche as it passes through Breaux Bridge,LA.