In a letter written on April 23, 1802, Martin Duralde, a former commandant of the Opelousas post, related the legend as it had come down from an Attakapas Indian. He said the Spanish government protected the birds, "for as they do not use the whole carcass of the buffaloes which (the Spaniards) kill, those birds eat what they leave, which otherwise, by rotting on the ground, would. Du Pratz described the bird as having black plumage and a head covered with red flesh. There is a related theory, consistent with the spelling, that the place is named for the carencro tête rouge, a red-headed buzzard referred to by European explorers as early as 1699, and described in 1774 by Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz.
According to this local legend, Native Americans told Vermilionville settlers that in old times a large number of "carrion crows" ( vultures, called carencro in French) had settled around the Vermilion River between Lafayette and Opelousas, Louisiana to feast on a fish die-off. Many senior Carencro natives attest that the town's name originates from before the American Civil War. The name means "carrion crow." Carencro is part of the Lafayette metropolitan area. The name of the city is derived from the Cajun French word for buzzard the spot where the community was settled was one where large flocks of American black vultures roosted in the bald cypress trees. The population was 7,526 at the 2010 census, up from 6,120 in 2000 at the 2020 census, its population was 9,272. It is a suburb of the nearby city of Lafayette. Carencro ( / ˈ k ær ən k r oʊ/ historically French: St.-Pierre ) is a city in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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