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Houma (/ ˈ h oʊ m ə / HOH-mə) is the largest city in and the parish seat of Terrebonne Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is also the largest principal city of the Houma– Bayou Cane – Thibodaux metropolitan statistical area .
- Metropolitan Statistical Area
The Houma–Bayou Cane–Thibodaux metropolitan area, officially...
- Houma people
The Houma (/ ˈ h oʊ m ə /) are a historic Native American...
- Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana
The parish seat of Houma was named after the Houma people....
- Metropolitan Statistical Area
Houma is the parish seat and the only municipality of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of 2020, 33,406 people live in Houma. References
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Houma, city, seat (1834) of Terrebonne parish, southeastern Louisiana, U.S., situated about 50 miles (80 km) southwest of New Orleans. It lies along Bayou Terrebonne and the Intracoastal Waterway and is connected to the Gulf of Mexico by the Houma Navigation Canal, 36 miles (58 km) long.
The city of Houma, Louisiana was founded in 1834 to establish a more central seat for Terrebonne Parish. By the time Houma was officially incorporated in 1848, the area was booming economically with sugar cane plantations as well as seafood and logging industries.
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