The Tonle Sap Lake
The Tonle Sap Lake is the most unmistakable highlight on the guide of Cambodia - a colossal dumbbell-molded waterway extending over the northwest of the nation. In the wet season, the lake is one of the biggest freshwater lakes in Asia, swelling to a sweeping 12,000 km2. Amid the dry a large portion of the year it psychologists to as little as 2500 km2, depleting into the Tonle Sap River, which winds southeast, in the long run converging with the Mekong River at the "chaktomuk" conjunction at Phnom Penh. Amid the wet season an extraordinary hydrologic marvel causes the Tonle Sap River to invert bearing, filling the lake.
The motor of this sensation is the Mekong River, which gets to be bloated with snow melt and overflow from the rainstorm downpours. The swollen Mekong moves down into the Tonle Sap at the point where the waterways meet at Chaktomuk, constraining the waters of the Tonle Sap River over into the lake. The inflow grows the territory of lake more than five-fold, immersing the encompassing forested floodplain and supporting a remarkably rich and assorted eco-framework.
More than 100 assortments of waterbirds including a few undermined and jeopardized species, more than 200 types of fish, and additionally crocodiles, turtles, macaques, otter and other natural life possess the immersed mangrove woods. The Lake is likewise an imperative business asset, giving more than a large portion of the fish devoured in Cambodia. In agreement with the particular biological systems, the human occupations at the edges of the lake is also unmistakable - coasting towns, towering stilted houses, enormous fish traps, and an economy and lifestyle profoundly interlaced with the lake, the fish, the natural life and the cycles of rising and falling waters.
The motor of this sensation is the Mekong River, which gets to be bloated with snow melt and overflow from the rainstorm downpours. The swollen Mekong moves down into the Tonle Sap at the point where the waterways meet at Chaktomuk, constraining the waters of the Tonle Sap River over into the lake. The inflow grows the territory of lake more than five-fold, immersing the encompassing forested floodplain and supporting a remarkably rich and assorted eco-framework.
More than 100 assortments of waterbirds including a few undermined and jeopardized species, more than 200 types of fish, and additionally crocodiles, turtles, macaques, otter and other natural life possess the immersed mangrove woods. The Lake is likewise an imperative business asset, giving more than a large portion of the fish devoured in Cambodia. In agreement with the particular biological systems, the human occupations at the edges of the lake is also unmistakable - coasting towns, towering stilted houses, enormous fish traps, and an economy and lifestyle profoundly interlaced with the lake, the fish, the natural life and the cycles of rising and falling waters.