Tonle Sap, Heart of Cambodia
Tonlé Sap, commonly translated to "Great Lake", refers to a seasonally inundated freshwater lake, the Tonlé Sap Lake and an attached river, the Tonlé Sap River, that connects the lake to the Mekong.
As one of the world’s most varied and productive ecosystems the region has always been of central importance for Cambodia's food provision . It proved capable to maintain the Angkorean civilization , the largest pre-industrial settlement complex in world history. Either directly or indirectly it affects the livelihood of large numbers of a predominantly rural population to this day.
