Annamite Range in Pu Mat National Park, Vietnam.

The Annamite Range is a mountain range of western Indochina, which extends approximately 1100 km (700 miles) through Laos and Vietnam. It is known in Vietnamese as Dãy Trường Sơn, in Lao as Phou Luang, and in French as the Chaîne Annamitique. The mountain range is also referred to variously as Annamese Range, Annamese Mountains, Annamese Cordillera, Annamite Mountains and Annamite Cordillera. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 532 pixelsFull resolution (1600 × 1064 pixel, file size: 302 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 532 pixelsFull resolution (1600 × 1064 pixel, file size: 302 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Indochina 1886 Indochina, or the Indochinese Peninsula, is a region in Southeast Asia. ...

The range runs parallel to the Vietnamese coast, in a gentle curve which divides the basin of the Mekong River from Vietnam's narrow coastal plain along the South China Sea. The eastern slopes of the range rise steeply from the plain, and the eastern slope is drained by numerous short rivers. It has three main plateaux, from north to south: Phouane Plateau, Nakai Plateau and Boloven Plateau. View of the Mekong before the sunset The Mekong is one of the worlds major rivers. ... Filipino name Tagalog: Luzon Sea Portuguese name Portuguese: Mar da China Meridional Vietnamese name Vietnamese: The South China Sea is a marginal sea south of China. ...

Laos lies mostly within the Mekong basin, west of the divide, although most of Houaphan Province and a portion of Xiangkhoang Province lie east of the divide. Most of Vietnam lies east of the divide, although Vietnam's Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) region lies west of the divide, in the Mekong basin. Houaphan (Lao ຫົວພັນ) is a province of Laos, located in the east of the country. ... Xiangkhoang (Lao ຊຽງຂວາງ) is a province of Laos, located in the north-east of the country. ... Tây Nguyên, translated as Central Highlands, is one of the regions of Vietnam. ...

The range is home to rare creatures such as the recently-discovered Annamite rabbit and the antelope-like saola, the large gaur and the indochinese tiger. The Annamite rabbit is a variety of rabbit native to the Annamite moutain range on the Laos-Vietnam border. ... Binomial name Pseudoryx nghetinhensis Dung, Giao, Chinh, Tuoc, Arctander, MacKinnon, 1993 The Saola or Vu Quang ox, also, infrequently, Vu Quang bovid (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis), one of the worlds rarest mammals, is a forest-dwelling bovine found only in Vietnam (Vu Quang Nature Reserve) and in Laos, near the Vietnam... Binomial name Bos gaurus H. Smith, 1827 Range map The Gaur (IPA gauɹ) (Bos gaurus, previously Bibos gauris) is a large, dark-coated ox of South Asia and Southeast Asia. ... Trinomial name Panthera tigris corbetti Mazák, 1968 Distribution map The Indochinese tiger or Corbetts tiger (Panthera tigris corbetti) is a subspecies of tiger found in Cambodia, China, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. ...

External links

• BBC In Pictures: Uncovering Viet Nam's secret wildlife