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Amite River

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Amite River
An excursion steamer on the Amite River, ca. 1895
Amite River
Etymology	French amitié ("friendship"), or Choctaw himmita ("young")^[1]
Location
Country	United States
States	Mississippi Louisiana
Counties	Lincoln Amite
Parishes	East Feliciana St. Helena East Baton Rouge Ascension Livingston
Physical characteristics

Source	West Fork Amite River
• location	Amite County, Mississippi
• coordinates	31°19′19″N 90°43′40″W / 31.32194°N 90.72778°W / 31.32194; -90.72778


2nd source	East Fork Amite River
• location	Lincoln County, Mississippi
• coordinates	31°26′05″N 90°37′12″W / 31.43472°N 90.62000°W / 31.43472; -90.62000


Source confluence
• location	St. Helena Parish and East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
• coordinates	30°59′38″N 90°50′06″W / 30.99389°N 90.83500°W / 30.99389; -90.83500

Mouth	Lake Maurepas
• location	Livingston Parish, Louisiana
• coordinates	30°17′53″N 90°33′37″W / 30.29806°N 90.56028°W / 30.29806; -90.56028
Length	117 mi (188 km)
Basin features
Cities	Denham Springs, Louisiana Whitehall, Livingston Parish, Louisiana
Tributaries
• right	Comite River, Bayou Manchac

The Amite River /ˈeɪ.mit/ (French: Rivière Amite) is a tributaryofLake MaurepasinMississippi and Louisiana in the United States. It is about 117 miles (188 km) long.^[2] It starts as two forks in southwestern Mississippi and flows south through Louisiana, passing Greater Baton Rouge, to Lake Maurepas. The lower 37 miles (59.5 km) of the river is navigable. A portion of the river is diverted via the Petite Amite River and Amite Diversion Canal to the Blind River, which also flows to Lake Maurepas.

Name

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Amite could be an name derived from the Choctaw language meaning "young", although folk etymology holds it to be a corruption of the French amitié meaning "friendship".^[3]

Fishing

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A 3.09-kilogram (6.8 lb) white bass (Morone chrysops) was caught on August 27, 2010 on the Amite River in Louisiana by angler Corey Crochet, tying an International Game Fish Association world record.^[4]