Phnom Tumpor | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 1,551 m (5,089 ft) [1] |
Coordinates | 12°22′00″N103°04′00″E / 12.366667°N 103.066667°E Coordinates: 12°22′00″N103°04′00″E / 12.366667°N 103.066667°E [2] |
Geography | |
Location | Pursat Province, Cambodia |
Parent range | Cardamom Mountains |
Phnom Tumpor is a mountain in Pursat Province of western Cambodia. There is a village nearby named Tumpor that lies on the Stung Pouthisat River. [3] The mountain is part of the Cardamom Range and has an elevation of 1,516 metres (4,974 ft). [4]
Pursat is a province (khaet) of Cambodia. It is located in the western part of the country and borders clockwise from the north with Battambang Province, the Tonlé Sap, Kampong Chhnang Province, Kampong Speu Province, Koh Kong Province, and Thailand. It is located between the Tonle Sap and the northern end of the Cardamom Mountains. The Pursat River bisects the province, running from the Cardamoms in the west to the Tonle Sap in the east.
Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is 181,035 square kilometres in area, bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the northeast, Vietnam to the east and the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest.
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The Krâvanh Mountains, literally the "Cardamom Mountains", is a mountain range in the south west of Cambodia and Eastern Thailand.
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Phnum Kravanh district is a district in Pursat Province, Cambodia. In English the name translates to the Cardamom Mountains.
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Phnom Sorsia is a Buddhist hill complex in Kampot Province, southern Cambodia. It contains Buddhist cultural features approached by a staircase and a complex of karst caves. One cave Rung Damrey Saa has a stalagmite resembling the head of an elephant; another has a bat colony. The gateway to the caves is marked by a pagoda, approximately 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) from the main road.
Phnom Chhnork is a Hindu cave temple in Kampot Province, southern Cambodia, located about 5 miles (8.0 km) north-east of Kampot. The temple was built in the 7th century from Funan brick, dedicated to Shiva. It is accessed view stone steps.
The killing caves of Phnom Sampeau are a Khmer Rouge execution site on Phnom Sampeau, a hill 7 mi (11 km) southwest of Battambang in western Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge killed their victims on top of the cave at the rim of a daylight shaft or ceiling hole and then threw the dead body into the cave. Men and women were placed in separate caves and clothes in another. There are a number of caves at Phnom Sampeau that have traditionally served as Buddhist temples. Today there is a large glass memorial in the cave next to the skulls and bones and a golden reclining Buddha, that can be reached via a staircase. A memorial, assembled from cyclone fencing and chicken wire contains human bones at the base of the stairway.
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Phnom Samkos is the second-highest peak in Cambodia, located in the western Cardamom Mountains at 1,717 metres (5,633 ft) above sea level. It is situated within the Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary, which takes its name from the mountain, and the Central Cardamom Protected Forest. The elevation and surrounding forest basin support a large variety of rare flora and fauna.
The Central Cardamom Mountains is a 4,010.65 km2 (1,548.52 sq mi) large protected forest in Cambodia's Cardamom Mountains It stretches across three provinces and is flanked on each side by Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary to the west and Phnom Aural to the east.
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