Amado S. Tolentino Jr.
Amado S. Tolentino Jr.

The Mekong River is the twelfth longest river in the world at 4,173 kms. and the largest international river within Southeast Asia. It encompasses six countries – China, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR), Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam with the headwaters originating in the Tibetan region of China. Its notable characteristic is the extent to which the river is “international” in nature; not only is it a boundary river for over 1,000 kms. but also constitute all the water resources of Cambodia and Lao PDR as well as the Northeast of Thailand and the Vietnamese “rice bowl” in the Mekong Delta.

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