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The Tonlé Sap and
the Mékong were always an essential way of commerce and
still now a large part of all the goods circulating in
Cambodia are transported on the lake.
Nowadays, thanks to the fertility of the neighbouring lands
and owing to the productive fisheries of the Tonle Sap, an
important population is living close and on the lake, spread
in about 60 villages.
These lake-villages are very different and clustering from
80 to 6000 inhabitants.
The families are living on small boats or in floating
houses, built with bamboos and located on the rivers or in
the floated forest during the rainy season and on the banks
during the dry season. The « altitude » of these floating
houses can therefore differ of 7 or 8 meters from one season
to another.
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