Phu Phan Mountains
The Phu Phan mountain range ( Thai เทือกเขา ภู พาน, [t ʰ ʉak -k ʰ ǎo p ʰ u ː p ʰ a ː n], English:. Phu Phan Range) is a mountain range that divides the Khorat Plateau in Isaan ( Northeast Thailand ) into two basins: the northern Sakhon Nakhon basin and the southern Khorat basin.
The hills extend to the provinces Nongbua Lamphu, Khon Kaen, Udon Thani, Sakon Nakhon, Nakhon Phanom, Kalasin and Mukdahan.
The name refers to the characteristic mesa - shape of most peaks: phu is Isaan-/Laotischen language, the word for "mountain" (as opposed to in khao Zentral-/Südthailand and doi in northern Thailand ), while phan a kind of base or also means tray. The highest elevations of the chain reach a height of about 630 meters.
The Phu Phan Palace, a former royal residence, located in the mountains near Sakhon Nakhon.
In the area of Phu Phan mountain chain there are four national parks:
- Phu Phan National Park
- National Park Phu Kao - Phu Phan Kham
- National Park Phu Pha Lek
- National Park Phu Pha Yon
In addition, here are the Nong Han lake, a large lake on the northern outskirts of Sakon Nakhon, and the almost 1000 year old ruins of the Khmer temple of Phu Phek to find.
After the Communist Party of Thailand ( CPT ) under Maoist influence in 1961 their " rural strategy " decided, so tried to encircle the cities from the land and devoted himself to the armed struggle, it moved its headquarters into the jungle of the Phu Phan mountains. Previously, the peasant leader Khrong Chandawong had been executed here. 1966, the radical intellectuals Jit Phumisak, who had joined the KPT, in the Phu Phan mountains ( Amphoe Waritchaphum, Sakon Nakhon ) was shot.