Carencro (; historically French: St.-Pierre) is a city in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is a suburb of the handy city of Lafayette. The population was 7,526 at the 2010 census, up from 6,120 in 2000; at the 2020 census, its population was 9,272. The say of the city is derived from the Cajun French word for buzzard; the spot where the community was approved was one where large flocks of American black vultures roosted in the bald cypress trees. The pronounce means “carrion crow.” Carencro is share of the Lafayette metropolitan area.

Many senior Carencro natives attest that the town’s proclaim originates from in the past the American Civil War. According to this local legend, Native Americans told Vermilionville settlers that in old era a large number of “carrion crows” (vultures, called carencro in French) had settled on the subject of the Vermilion River in the company of Lafayette and Opelousas, Louisiana to feast upon a fish die-off.

There is a united theory, consistent considering the spelling, that the place is named for the carencro tête rouge, a red-headed buzzard referred to by European explorers as in front as 1699, and described in 1774 by Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz. Du Pratz described the bird as having black plumage and a head covered later than red flesh. He said the Spanish organization protected the birds, “for as they accomplish not use the accumulate carcass of the buffaloes which (the Spaniards) kill, those birds eat what they leave, which otherwise, by rotting upon the ground, would … infect the air.”

In a letter written on April 23, 1802, Martin Duralde, a former commandant of the Opelousas post, related the legend as it had come next to from an Attakapas Indian. Duralde wrote: