Yazoo River

32°20′8″N 90°53′50″W

This article is about an individual river. For type of tributary, see Yazoo stream.

The Yazoo River is a river in the U.S. states of Louisiana and Mississippi. It is considered by some to mark the southern boundary of what is called the Mississippi Delta, a broad floodplain that was cultivated for cotton plantations before the American Civil War. It has continued to be devoted to large-scale agriculture.

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