Bago Mountains

Bago Mountains

▪ mountains, Myanmar
Burmese  Bago Yoma , also called  Pegu Mountains 

      mountain range of south-central Myanmar (Burma), extending 270 miles (435 km) north-south between the Irrawaddy (Irrawaddy River) and Sittang (Sittang River) rivers and ending in a ridge at Yangon (Rangoon). The range averages about 2,000 feet (600 metres) in elevation, reaching its highest point in the north at Popa Hill (4,981 feet [1,518 metres]), an extinct volcano. Teak and other tropical hardwoods are extracted in the eastern Bago Mountains. Ethnic minorities (hill peoples) practice shifting agriculture in these mountains, growing upland rice, corn (maize), and millet. During the 1960s the Bago Mountains were a refuge for communist insurgents.

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