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 This has been replaced by the state of Khmer culture Chenla to the fifth century.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