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Tonlé Sap

Tonlé Sap
2014. Tonlé Sap (Cambodia) © Bernardo Salce
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Tonlé Sap

During rainy season, an official building is seen next to a tree in the floating village of Kompong Khleang, one of the largest communities on the Tonlé Sap. Built on towering stilts to allow for a dramatic change in water level, the houses are a popular tourist attraction in the region. Tonlé Sap, literally “large river” (tonle) not salty (sap), refers to a seasonally inundated freshwater lake, the Tonlé Sap Lake, and an attached river, the 120km Tonlé Sap River, that connects the lake to the iconic Mekong River, the world’s twelfth longest river and a vital life and cultural artery in Southeast Asia.