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That seasonal reversal turns Tonlé Sap Lake into a vast flood-storage system supporting wetlands, fisheries and rice production.
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Chaktomuk Confluence
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Chaktomuk means “four faces,” a reference to the four branches formed where the Mekong, Tonlé Sap and Bassac meet at Phnom Penh.
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During the wet season, the Tonlé Sap River reverses direction and carries Mekong water away from Phnom Penh toward the Great Lake.
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The Mekong basin covers about 795,000 square kilometers and carries a mean annual discharge of roughly 14,500 cubic meters per second.
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The Chaktomuk junction functions as a transport hub for craft ranging from fishing boats and high-speed passenger boats to 5,000-deadweight-ton cargo vessels.
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The Mekong descends from roughly 4,500 meters on the Tibetan Plateau and runs about 4,800 kilometers through six countries.
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At Phnom Penh, wet-season Mekong discharge can reach about twenty times the dry-season flow.
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Phnom Penh's autonomous port dredges the confluence continuously to keep navigation channels open.
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French accounts called the same confluence Quatre Bras, or “four arms.”
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A 2012 USGS survey mapped Chaktomuk riverbed elevations from about 24.08 meters below to 1.54 meters above the Ha Tien 1960 datum.
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