Annamite Range in Hương Sơn District, Hà Tĩnh Province, Việt NamLandscape south of the Annamite Mountain Range near Hoi Yen, Quảng Nam Province, Việt Nam
The Annamite Range or the Annamese Mountains (French: Chaîne annamitique; Lao: ພູ ຫລວງPhou Luang; Vietnamese: Dãy (núi) Trường Sơn) is a major mountain range of eastern Indochina, extending approximately 1,100 km (680 mi) through Laos, Vietnam, and a small area in northeast Cambodia.
The highest points of the range are the 2,819 m (9,249 ft)-high Phou Bia, the 2,720 m (8,920 ft)-high Phu Xai Lai Leng and the 2,598 m (8,524 ft)-high Ngọc Linh (Ngoc Pan). The latter is located at the northwestern edge of the Triassic Kontum Massif in central Vietnam.[1] Important mountain passes are the Nape Pass and the Mụ Giạ Pass.
The Annamite Range runs parallel to the Vietnamese coast, in a gentle curve which divides the basin of the Mekong River from Vietnam's narrow coastal plain along the South China Sea. Most of the crests are on the Laotian side. The eastern slope of the range rises steeply from the plain, drained by numerous short rivers. The western slope is more gentle, forming significant plateaus before descending to the banks of the Mekong. The range itself has three main plateaus, from north to south: Phouane Plateau, Nakai Plateau and Bolaven Plateau.
Laos lies mostly within the Mekong basin, west of the divide, although most of Houaphan Province and a portion of Xiangkhoang Province (where the famous Plain of Jars is located) lie east of the divide. Most of Vietnam lies east of the divide, although Vietnam's Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) region lies west of the divide, in the Mekong basin.
^Southern Annamites montane rain forests Archived October 1, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
The AnnamiteRange or the Annamese Mountains (French: Chaîne annamitique; Lao: ພູ ຫລວງ Phou Luang; Vietnamese: Dãy (núi) Trường Sơn) is a major mountain...
looming, solitary massif, unconnected to the ridges of the surrounding Annamiterange. It dominates the northern valley, towering some 937 metres above sea...
Mountains – 1,100 kilometres (680 mi) Cascade Range – 1,100 km (680 mi) AnnamiteRange – 1,100 km (680 mi) Brooks Range – 1,100 km (680 mi) (section of the North...
Qinling, Western Ghats, Vindhyas, Byrrangas, and the AnnamiteRange. If the definition of a mountain range is stretched to include underwater mountains, then...
Ho Chi Minh Trail (Vietnamese: Đường mòn Hồ Chí Minh), also called AnnamiteRange Trail (Vietnamese: Đường Trường Sơn) was a logistical network of roads...
world's rarest large mammals, a forest-dwelling bovine native to the AnnamiteRange in Vietnam and Laos. It was described in 1993 following a discovery...
the rulers of Vietnam and Laos in the mid-seventeenth century. The AnnamiteRange as a reference, was formally defined by a delimitation treaty signed...
The Northern Annamites rain forests ecoregion (WWF ID: IM0136) covers the rugged and relatively unexplored northern Annamite Mountains of central Laos...
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border with the growing power of Fa Ngum. The result was to use the AnnamiteRange as both a cultural and territorial barrier between the two kingdoms...
Fang Wenshan), a Taiwanese lyricist (born 1969) Wenshan (mountain), AnnamiteRange, Indochina; see List of Ultras of Southeast Asia 文山 (disambiguation)...
Shan States and the Northern Malay Peninsula and as far East as the AnnamiteRange, respectively. His reign also marked the beginning of a new "Golden...
Mountains plateau, bordering Thailand and Laos, to the north-east by the AnnamiteRange, in the south-west by the Cardamom Mountains and in the South by the...
east, respectively. The province extends from the mountains of the AnnamiteRange in the north, across a hilly plateau between the Tonlé San and Tonlé...
province to the south, and Thailand to the west. The province includes the AnnamiteRange, stretching east to Vietnam, while to the west are the Mekong River...
Costa of Venezuela Annamese Cordillera (AnnamiteRange), in Laos and Vietnam Arctic Cordillera, the mountain ranges along the northeastern edge of the Arctic...
muntjac (or common muntjac). It was discovered in the Truong Son (Annamite) mountain range in Vietnam in 1997. It was identified by examination of skulls...
(China) to Steung Treng (Cambodia), from the eastern border along the AnnamiteRange with Vietnam to the western border Khorat Plateau (Northeastern Thailand...
Annamites montane rain forests ecoregion (WWF ID: IM0152) covers a region of high biodiversity in the central and southern mountains of the Annamite Range...
western slopes of AnnamiteRange in central Vietnam L. n. beli (Oustalet, 1898) – Bel's silver pheasant – eastern slopes of AnnamiteRange in central Vietnam...
activities. History has shown that Xiangkhouang, at the northern end of the AnnamiteRange, provides relative easy passage from the north and east to the south...
Cambodia). Laos is geographically isolated and mountainous, bounded by the AnnamiteRange in the east, forming a traditional political and cultural boundary with...
the Champa kingdoms, and after their decline migrated west over the AnnamiteRange, dispersing between the Mon–Khmer groups. The disparate groups that...
is a solitary massif, unconnected to the ridges of the surrounding AnnamiteRange. It dominates the northern valley, towering some 937 meters (3,074 ft)...
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