Nam Pang River

Nam Pang River
Country Myanmar
Physical characteristics
Main source Shan Hills NE of Pangkyehtu
River mouth Salween near Na-hkilek
240 m (790 ft)
20°57′18″N 98°30′01″E / 20.95500°N 98.50028°E / 20.95500; 98.50028Coordinates: 20°57′18″N 98°30′01″E / 20.95500°N 98.50028°E / 20.95500; 98.50028

The Nam Pang River, also known as Pang River, is a major river of Shan State, eastern Burma. It is the largest tributary of the Salween River.[1][2]

Course

Its source is in the hills northeast of Pangkyehtu and it flows by the town of Kunhing.[3]

The Nam Pang joins the Salween from the right at the village of Na-hkilek at 20°57′18″N 98°30′01″E / 20.95500°N 98.50028°E / 20.95500; 98.50028 at an elevation of 240 m (790 ft). A few miles beyond the confluence is said to be "a strange whirlpool, at the place the river is in a gorge between limestone cliffs, which fall smooth and precipitous to the water's edge."[4]

References

  1. ↑ Beach, Frederick Converse; Rines, George Edwin (1908). The Americana: a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world (Now in the public domain. ed.). Scientific American compiling department. pp. 988–. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
  2. ↑ Grigson, Geoffrey; Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard (1957). Places: a volume of travel in space and time: places which have delighted, intrigued, and intimidated men. Hawthorn Books. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
  3. ↑ Current Status of Dam Projects on Burma’s Salween River
  4. ↑ Collis, Maurice (1938). Lords of the sunset: a tour in the Shan states. Dodd, Mead. Retrieved 28 September 2011.


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