Boat Wreck On Tonle Sap Stock Image

The Tonlé Sap Lake occupies a geological depression the lowest lying area of the vast alluvial and lacustrine floodplain in the lower Mekong basin, which has been induced by the collision of the Indian Plate with the Eurasian Plate.[5][6] The lake`s size, length and water volume varies considerably over the course of a year from an area of around 2,500 km2 965 sq mi, a volume of 1 km3 0.24 cu mi and a length of 160 km 99 mi at the end of the dry season in late-April to an area of up to 16,000 km2 6,178 sq mi, a volume of 80 km3 19 cu mi and a length of 250 km 160 mi as the Mekong maximum and the peak of the southwest monsoon`s precipitation culminate in September and early-October