Caddo Lake

Caddo Lake
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Location	Texas, Louisiana
Coordinates	32°43′N 94°01′W / 32.71°N 94.01°W / 32.71; -94.01
Basin countries	United States
Surface area	25,400 acres (10,300 ha)
Surface elevation	161 ft (49 m)
Islands	Tar Island
Ramsar Wetland
Designated	23 October 1993
Reference no.	633[1]

Caddo Lake (French: Lac Caddo) is a 25,400-acre (10,300 ha) lake and bayou (wetland) on the border between Texas and Louisiana, in northern Harrison County and southern Marion County in Texas and western Caddo Parish in Louisiana. The lake is named after the Caddoans or Caddo, Native Americans who lived in the area until their expulsion by the United States in the 19th century. The US forced most of them to move west to Indian Territory.

The lake and bayou comprise an internationally protected wetland under the Ramsar Convention and includes one of the largest flooded cypress forests in the United States. Caddo is one of Texas's few non-oxbow natural lakes. It was artificially altered by the addition of a dam in the 1900s.^[2]