Cambodia: A Khmer family in their boat on the Great Lake, Tonle Sap. The Tonlé Sap is a vast lake in Cambodia’s central northwest, surrounded by a fertile plain. The Sap River runs from the lake’s southeastern end to join the Mekong in Phnom Penh, some 100 km (63 miles) distant. During the dry months, roughly between November and May, the lake is at its smallest, though it still covers 2,500 to 3,000 sq km (965 to 1,160 sq miles). When the rains fall, though, from mid-May through October, a unique hydrographic phenomenon occurs.

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