Mississippi has many rivers, creeks, bayous, and other natural drainage networks. The stateās principal river systems include the Tombigbee, now joined with the Tennessee to form the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, which links the Tennessee River with the Gulf of Mexico; the Pascagoula in the southeast; the Pearl in the south-central section; and the Mississippi River and its tributaries, notably the Yazoo and the Big Black, in the west. These streams all empty into the gulf, either directly or through the Mississippi and other rivers. The Pearl River rises in east-central Mississippi and flows southwestward, through Jackson, then generally southward into Louisiana, emptying into the Mississippi Sound on the Gulf of Mexico. The lower course of the Pearl and the East Pearl form the boundary between Mississippi and Louisiana.
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