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Mekong
River Tours
The
Mekong River Basin is defined by the land area surrounding all the streams and
rivers that flow into the Mekong River. This includes parts of China, Myanmar
and Viet Nam, nearly one third of Thailand and most of Cambodia and Lao PDR.
With a total land area of 795 000 square kilometers, the Mekong River Basin is
nearly the size of France and Germany together. From its headwaters thousands of
meters high on the Tibetan Plateau, it flows through six distinct geographical
regions, each with characteristic features of elevation, topography and land
cover. It would take 2 days of twenty-four hour driving at 100 km per hour to
drive the same distance as the length of the Mekong River (4800 km).
The most abundant resources in the Mekong Basin are water and biodiversity. Only
the Amazon River Basin has greater diversity of plant and animal life. So much
water flows into the mainstream Mekong from the surrounding basin area that, on
average, 15,000 cubic meters of water passes by every second. In many parts of
the world, that's enough water to supply all the needs of 100,000 people – the
population of a large town – for a whole day. This water nourishes large tracts
of forest and wetlands which produce building materials, medicines and food,
provides habitats for thousands of species of plants and animals and supports an
inland capture fishery with an estimated commercial value of US$2 billion
dollars per year. Known mineral resources include tin, copper, iron ore, natural
gas, potash, gem stones and gold.
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