| Nam Khan | |
|---|---|
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| Native name | ນ້ຳຄານcode: lao promoted to code: lo (Lao) |
| Location | |
| Country | Laos |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | Mekong |
• coordinates | 19°53′56″N 102°08′41″E / 19.8989°N 102.1446°E / 19.8989; 102.1446 |
• elevation | 300 m |
| Length | 935 km (581 mi) |
Basin size | 7,490 km2 (2,890 sq mi) |
The Nam Khan (Lao: ນ້ຳຄານ) is a river in Laos that is a major tributary of the river Mekong, with which it joins at Luang Prabang.[1]
The Nam Khan river is 935 km long and the catchment area is 7490 km2 (or 7620 km2[2]); the population of the catchment is about 122,700 (1996).[1]
The confluence of Nam Khan and Mekong forms a peninsula where the downtown of Luang Prabang is located.[3]
References
- ed. A.W.Jayawardena, K.Takeuchi, B.Machbub, ed. (1997). "7. Lao 1. Nam Khane" (PDF). CATALOGUE OF RIVERS FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC, Volume II. Hong Kong. ISBN 962-8014-09-9.
{{cite book}}:|editor=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link) - Liu X, Liu FM, Wang XX, Li XD, Fan YY, Cai SX, Ao TQ (2017). "Combining rainfall data from rain gauges and TRMM in hydrological modelling of Laotian data-sparse basins". Applied Water Science. 7 (3): 1487–1496. Bibcode:2017ApWS....7.1487L. doi:10.1007/s13201-015-0330-y.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Lynne M Dearborn, John C Stallmeyer (2016). Inconvenient Heritage: Erasure and Global Tourism in Luang Prabang. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-42687-7.