Tonle Sap, Cambodia | along the Mekong | flovision - photography by Florian Christian | flovision

Tonle Sap, Cambodia

May-2013

Southeast Asia’s largest fresh water lake with fishery providing an important source of food and income for millions of people depending on the natural and agricultural habitats. During dry season the Tonle river drains the lake into the Mekong river near Phnom Penh. During rainy season the floods of the swollen Mekong reverse the flow and fill Tonle Sap lake from 2,700 to 16,000 square km surface area. In recent years however the dams built upstream have led to more frequent draughts and lack of sediments and nutrients carried down river and into the lake.

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