Bridges

The Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge (Thai: สะพาน มิตรภาพ ไทย - ลาว Mittaphap Saphan Thailand and Laos) connects Nong Khai city of Vientiane in Laos. The 1170 feet (3840 m) long bridge has two 3.5 meter (11 ft) wide channel with a single rail line in the middle. On March 20, 2004, governments agreed Thailand and Laos to extend the railway to Tha Nalaeng Laos, this expansion has been completed. The second Friendship Bridge connecting Thailand and Laos Savannakhet Mukdahan. The two lanes of 12 meters (39 feet) wide, 1,600 meters (5,200 feet) long bridge was opened in January 9, 2007. There are only three bridges, located in Champasak province, Laos....

History

The difficulty of navigating the river means that a country divided, rather than States, people living near him. The first regulation known date 2100 BC, with Ban Chiang is an excellent example of this culture of the Iron Age. The first civilization was recorded on 1 Indianized century culture Khmer of Funan in the Mekong Delta. The excavation of Oc Eo, near modern An Giang, have found coins from as far away as the Roman Empire. This has been replaced by the state of Khmer culture Chenla to the fifth century. The Khmer empire of Angkor was the last great Indianized state in the region. At the time of the fall of the Khmer empire, the Mekong...

Geology Of The Mekong River Basin

Patterns of internal drainage of the Mekong is unusual compared to other major rivers, the most important river systems that drain the interior of continents, such as the Amazon, Congo and Mississippi, have relatively simple dendritic tributary system that looks to a tree branch. Typically, such patterns develop in basins with gentle slopes where the underlying geological structure is rather homogeneous and stable, to little or no control over the river morphology. In contrast, the network tributary of the Salween, Yangtze, Mekong and especially the complex with various sub-basins are often different, and different types of drainage. These drainage...