The Nam Ngum Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Nam Ngum River, a major tributary of the Mekong River in Laos. It was the first hydropower dam built in the Lao PDR.
Don Sahong. The country's earliest major dam was built on the Ngum River in Vientiane Province, for the NamNgum 1 Hydropower plant. Completed in 1971 with...
village to the north of Vang Vieng. NamNgumNamNgumDam Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nam Song River. Nam Son Hydropower Project 18°38′42″N 102°18′06″E...
Vientiane. The NamNgum river basin is home to about one million people in Laos. The current largest dam on NamNgum, NamNgumDam (NamNgum 1 Hydropower...
the Nam Theun 2 Power Company, of whose stock it controls 25%. LHSE is involved with other projects of Laos' energy infrastructure, including NamNgum Dam...
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end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Several tributary dams were constructed, but only one—the NamNgumDam (completed 1971), in Laos—outside of Thailand, whose...
and “Special Contribution Award” in 2016 for the NamNgum 5 Hydropower station. The Nam Ou cascade dam project has also sponsored Lao students’ education...
under his domain Fa Ngum moved down the Nam Ou to take Muang Sua. Despite three attacks the King of Muang Sua, who was Fa Ngum's uncle, was unable to...
(平和鎮魂 日本人埋葬碑)) Vientiane Province, NamNgumDam: The grave site of several Japanese engineers surveying possible dam locations who died in December 1960...
contributions from the large left bank tributaries in Laos, namely the NamNgum, Nam Theun, Nam Hinboun, Se Bang Fai, Se Bang Hieng and Se Done Rivers. The Mun-Chi...
national shrine Pha That Luang. A dam is pictured, which is a symbol of power generation at the reservoir NamNgum. An asphalt street is also pictured...
capital is Phonsavan. Xiangkhouang and Vientiane provinces are part of the NamNgum River watershed. Apart from floodplains, the largest expanse of level land...
established as a province on 13 December 2013. Since then, dam construction on the NamNgum River led to around 300 families being relocated to Feuang...
net/publication/341793965 "Preparing the Cumulative Impact Assessment for the NamNgum 3 Hydropower Project: Financed by the Japan Special Fund" (PDF). Archived...
in the genus Schistura. It has only been recorded in the Nam San, a tributary of the NamNgum in the Mekong Basin of Laos where it can be found in moderately...
Laos is produced by one coal-fired power plant and several hydroelectric dams. 53% of power generated in 2016 came from renewable sources. The majority...
Pheung Noi, is the Num Ngum 4 hydroelectric dam. Down from the village of Ban Phou Pheung Noi are rocky mountains and the NamNgum River, which ran west...
Lao people can be seen in the Chronicles of the Tai Dam or Black Tai people, “Returning along Mae Nam Taav (The Red river) as promised, the expedition passed...
kingdom of Lan Xang was established in Luang Prabang in the 14th century by Fa Ngum. The kingdom's name means Million Elephants, echoing the name of the neighboring...
to the Khmer Empire and then came north to Lan Xang at the request of Fa Ngum's Khmer queen. Other historically significant Buddha images include the colossal...
Kingdom of Lan Xang since the time of King Photisarath in the 1520s. King Fa Ngum the founder of Lan Xang brought Theravada monks and the Phra Bang (palladium...
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