Champasak

Champasak

Laos
also spelled  Champassak,  also called  Bassac 

      town, southern Laos. It lies on the west bank of the Mekong River, within an agricultural region of rolling plains and alluvial lowlands whose mountainous core is an eastern outlier of the Dângrêk Mountains. The town lies some 30 miles (48 km) east of the Laos-Thailand border and about 82 miles (132 km) north of the border with Cambodia. The rolling Boloven Plateau to the northeast, at 3,500 feet (1,100 metres) in elevation, is the wettest region of Laos, with 160 inches (4,100 mm) of rainfall per year. The Mekong River area is largely alluvial lowland.

      Once the third kingdom of Laos, Champasak was established in 1713. Its lands lay on both sides of the Mekong and included Vat Phou (monumental ruins dating from the 8th–12th century), where a provincial centre of the Cambodian Kingdom of Angkor was located. In the 19th century the western part was absorbed by Siam (now Thailand); but the Franco-Siamese treaties of 1904–05 reunited the area with the Laotian territory of Champasak. From 1941 to 1945 Thailand held the land west of the Mekong, this time with the encouragement of Japan. In August 1946 Prince Boun Oum of Champasak renounced his sovereign territorial rights over the region in favour of the united kingdom, with the royal capital at Luang Prabang (now spelled Louangphrabang).

      The populace of the region, predominantly valley Lao, raise rice and corn (maize) and traditionally were Thammayut Buddhists. The Boloven Plateau, sparsely populated by Lao-Theng (Lao-Theung; Mountain Mon-Khmer) peoples, supports coffee, cardamom, teak, and tobacco and is one of two major cotton-growing regions in Laos. Much of the local trade of lac, kapok, timber, tobacco, and rice is carried on through Muang Không, a Mekong port located on 100-square-mile (259-square-km) Không Island just north of the Cambodian border. Pop. (latest est.) 13,200.

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