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Acadian Thruway - 70808 BATON ROUGE State Dialling Code (Tel/Fax): ++1 225 LOUISIANA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (225) 927-5790 COOK CONFERENCE CENTER & HOTEL AT LSU, 3848 West Lakeshore Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism, PO Louisiana Office of Tourism: Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, (225) 383-COOK (2665), Fax: (225) 383-4200 Box 94291, Capitol Station, Baton Rouge, LA 70804 Tel: 342 8100 or 800 227 4386 http://www.cookconferencecenter.org (toll free) Fax: 342 8390 E-mail: [email protected] Website: EMBASSY SUITES HOTEL BATON ROUGE, 4914 Constitution Avenue, Baton www.crt.state.la.us/crt/tourism.htm Rouge, LA 70808, 1 225-924-6566,:1 2259233712 www.embassysuites.com Capital: Baton Rouge Time: GMT – 6 FAIRFIELD INN BATON ROUGE SOUTH, 7959 Essen Park Avenue, Baton Background: Louisiana entered the Union on April 30, 1812, as the 18th state. In Rouge, LA 70809, 1 225-766-9493, Fax:1 2257669175,www.marriott.com 1861 it became a founding member of the Confederate States of America. The state HAMPTON INN BATON ROUGE, 4646 Constitution Avenue, Baton Rouge, LA economy was long dominated by agriculture. By the 1990s, however, exploitation of 70808, 1 225-926-9990 , FAX:1 2259233007, www.hamptoninn.com the state’s vast oil and natural gas deposits had made Louisiana the second most important mineral-producing state in the United States. Tourism was a rapidly growing sector of the economy, and manufacturing was also important. The state’s name Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center derives from the former French territory lying west of the Mississippi River, which was named Louisiane by the French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, in 201 Lafayette Street, honour of King Louis XIV. Louisiana is known as the “Pelican State”. Its major cities Baton Rouge, Louisiana, are Baton Rouge (the capital), New Orleans, Shreveport, Lafayette, and Kenner. Population: According to the 1990 census, Louisiana had 4,219,973 inhabitants, an Tel: 1-225-344-5866 increase of 0.3 per cent over 1980. The estimated population for 1997 was 4,351,769. The average population density in the mid-1990s was 33 people per sq km (85 per sq FAX: 1 2259060595 mi); the main population concentrations were in the northern and southern parts of the state. Whites made up 67.3 per cent of the population and blacks 30.8 per cent; http://www3.hilton.com/en additional population groups included some 18,361 Native Americans, 17,598 people of Vietnamese extraction, 5,430 people of Chinese descent, 5,083 people of Asian Indian background, and 3,731 people of Filipino origin. Approximately 93,000 people were of Latino background. The southern region of Louisiana contained much of the state’s non-white population as well as such fairly distinct ethnic groups as the HILTON GARDEN INN BATON ROUGE AIRPORT, 3330 Harding Boulevard, Creoles, descendants of early French and Spanish settlers, and the Cajuns, who trace Baton Rouge, LA 70807, United States, +1 225-357-6177/6175, their ancestry to the French-Canadian Acadians expelled from eastern Canada in the www.hiltongardeninn.com mid-18th century. HOLIDAY INN SELECT EXECUTIVE CENTER BATON ROUGE, 4728 Location: Louisiana, one of the southern states of the United States, bordered on Constitution Ave, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, United States, +1 225-925-2244, the north by Arkansas; on the east by Mississippi; on the south by the Gulf of Mexico; [email protected] ,www.hiselect.com and on the west by Texas. 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