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 This has been replaced by the state of Khmer culture Chenla to the fifth century.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...

Natural History Of The Mekong Basin

Mekong Basin is one of the richest areas of biodiversity in the world. Only Amazon can boast of a higher degree of biodiversity. Estimates of the biota of the Greater Mekong (GMS) consists of 20 000 plant species, 430 mammals, birds 1200, 800 reptiles and amphibians and 850 species approximately. In 2009, 145 new species described in the Mekong region, including 29 species previously unknown to science, two new species of birds, ten reptiles, five mammals, 96 amphibians and six new plants Mekong region contains 16 WWF Global 200 ecoregions, the largest concentration of ecoregions in continental Asia. No other river is home to many species of...

Environmental Concerns

The last two problems are the construction of the dam the river and jump the rapids. Several dams have been built on tributaries of the river, especially the Pak Mun dam in Thailand. This has been criticized because of the costs and damage to the environment and living conditions of villagers affected, but none has been built on the main part himself. China is committed to a comprehensive program for the construction of the dam the river itself: it is already in the first three are called Manwan dam, another twelve are under consideration. Impoverished Cambodia is a nation that is totally dependent on the river for food and most of its booming...

Watershed

The point at which it rises in its mouth, most of the sharp drop occurs in the Mekong what is called "the Upper Mekong Basin" (see below), a stretch of about 2200 km (1367 miles). Here, you go down to 4500 meters (14,764 feet) meters before entering the lower basin where the borders of Thailand, Laos, Burma, China, and combines the Golden Triangle. Downstream of the Golden Triangle, but the river is 2600 km 2600 km (1616 miles), through Laos, Thailand and Cambodia, in front of the South China Sea through a complex delta in Vietnam. In the province of Yunnan in China, the river and its tributaries are limited by narrow gorges. Tax systems in...

Course

The Mekong rises, "Three Rivers Area 'of the Tibetan plateau Sanjiangyuan nature reserve as the Yangtze River and Lancang rivers along the Salween. It flows south through Yunnan through the Three Rivers Area Hengduan Mountains. After leaving China, which flows south- east, forming the border of Burma and Laos, about 100 km (62 miles) south-west of turns to form a short edge with Laos, Thailand. The Mekong River flows east and south of Laos, about 400 km (250 miles ), and defines the Laos-Thailand border, and some 850 km (530 miles), when it flows east, turning south through the Mid South-East Asia, which manages the capital of Laos, Vientiane....

Names

In English, the river is called the "Mekong", derived from "Mae Nam Khong," an expression both from Thailand and Laos. In Lao-Thai names, all major rivers are considered "mother river" is indicated by the prefix "Mae" which means "mother" and "nam" for water. In the Mekong, which means Mae Nam Khong Khong, the Mother of Water. "Khong" comes from the Sanskrit "Ganga", which means that the Ganges. Many northern Thailand and Laos, local refers to it as "Khong River". This is the case with the Mae Nam Ping in Chiang Mai, known as "the Ping River." Tonle Sap in Cambodia is a similar example - ". Sap River" where the Tonle translates as "Great lake...

Mekong

Mekong is a river in mainland China and Indochina. 10.-It is the world's longest river long and 7.-Asia. Its length is estimated at 4909 km (3050 mi) and drains an area of ​​795,000 km2 (307,000 square miles), releasing 475 km3 (114 cu MI) of water per year. Since the Tibetan plateau, this river runs through China's Yunnan province, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam established the Mekong River Commission in 1995 to assist management and the coordinated use of resources of the Mekong. In 1996, China and Burma has become a "dialogue partner" is the MRC and the six countries now jointly co-operation. Seasonal...

Lena Delta

At the end of the Lena River Delta is a great stretching 100 km in the Laptev Sea and is located about 400 km (250 miles) wide. The delta is frozen tundra for about 7 months of the year, but in May transforms the region into a lush wetland area in the coming months. Part of the area is protected as a Wildlife Reserve in the Lena Delta. The Lena Delta is divided into a multitude of flat islands. The most important are (from west to east): Chychas aryt, Petrouchka, Saga control Samakh Diyete Ary, Turkan Bel'keydere, Sasyllakh Ary, Kolkhoztakh Bel'keydere, Grigoriy Diyelyakh Bel'kee (Grigoriy Islands) Nerpa Uolun aryt , Bel Misha "keydere, Atakhtay...

Along The Lena

At the top of the west and northwest of Lake Baikal, the river flows mainly northward. 4400:. A small lake Baikal in the range, in the Baikal-Lena Reserve, 10 km west of Lake Baikal, 1800. The Lena flows north to 19 km, 600 meters to lose altitude and becomes possible in the rafts. Branches to the west and then south to lose another 600 meters to 128 km for Chanchur, where a ranger station. 4222: Kachuga: Beginning of navigation, route of Irkutsk. 4197: Verkholensk: Kulenga mouth of the river north-west through the mountains, the river tutur. 4108: Zhigalovo: start of passenger service, including hydrofoil to Ust-Kut. Canyon downstream. In...

History Of The Lena River

Most scientists believe that the name of the Lena was acquired from the original self-Evenks Elyu-One name, meaning "great river". "Lena" is also a popular name for women in Russia. According to stories about a century after the events in the years 1620-1623 of the Russian fur hunters, led by Demid Pyanda Tunguska lower back, and discovered near the Lena and it was there or build their ships again. In 1623 Pyanda explored some 2400 km of rocky part of the river above its central parity in the range of Yakutia. In 1628, Vasily Bugor men and ten of them have reached the Lena, the natives and collected yasak Kirinsk founded in 1632. In 1631, Piotr...

Lena River Basin

The total length of the river is estimated at 4400 km (2800 miles). Lena River basin area is calculated by 2.49 million km sq (961,394 sq km). The gold is washed from the sand and Vitim Olyokma, and mammoth tusks have been dug in the delta. Lena is an unusual distinction that seems to be the longest river in the world when it appears on the map with the Mercator projection, the most common way to show the spherical shape of a flat surface, since the projection of a tendency to exaggerate the size neighbors of the hubs (no longer the Amazon and Nile rivers and cross the equator.) Tributaries The river flows northward between high Kirenga Lena...

Lena River

Lena (Russian: Лена, IPA: [l ʲ enə] Saja: Өлүөнэ, Ölüöne) is the easternmost of the three great rivers of Siberia flowing into the Arctic Ocean (the others being the river Ob and Yenisei River). He is the longest river in the world 11 º and the basin of the ninth. It is the largest Russian River with its basin entirely within national boundaries. Course Rising to a height of 1640 meters (5381 feet), the source of the Baikal Mountains south of the Central Siberian Plateau, 7 km (4 million), west of Lake Baikal, Lena flows northeast, which have Kirenga adhered to the river and the river Vitim Olyokma River. From Yakutsk it enters the plains...

Argun River

Ergun and Argun (Mongolian:         , Эргүнэ мөрөн, Ergun Moroni; Manchu: Ergun Bira, Chinese: 额尔古纳河; Аргунь Russian) is the river that forms part of the border with Russia, China . Its headwaters are known as the Hailar River (海拉尔 河, Haila'er He) in China. Its length is 1007 kilometers (1,620 kilometers). The Ergun marks the border between Russia and China for about 944 km until it meets the Amur River, since it was created by the Treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689. The river flows west side of the chain in the Greater Khingan Inner Mongolia. And 'the confluence of the river to Ust-Amur River Strelka Shilka forms. Kherlen-Ergun-Amur In...