Yalobusha River

The river below the dam Grenada

The Yalobusha River belongs to the basin of the Mississippi.

It rises northwest of the city of Houston in Chickasaw County in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Mississippi. It flows in a south-westerly direction, the County Calhoun and Grenada before he joins in the city Greenwood Leflore County in the Tallahatchie River to the Yazoo River.

The largest part of its course through the Calhoun County has been straightened and channelized. This part of the flow is also known as Yalobusha River Canal. In the adjacent Grenada County, the river has been dammed up by a planted by the United States Army Corps of Engineers dam to Grenada Lake. In these discharges, the largest tributary, the River Skuna.