Beung Kiat Ngong Wetlands
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The Bung Kiat Ngong wetland cover 2,360 hectares and is located in Pathoumphone District, Champassak Province in southern Laos, 56 km south of the provincial capital, Pakse. The southern parts of the wetland and most of the village of Ban Kiat Ngong, are located within the Xe Pian National Protected Area (NPA).[3] Beung Kiat Ngong wetland is included the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot or the Central Indochina area.[4]
Beung Kiat Ngong wetlands has a catchment of more than 6,000 ha, of which 2,360 ha are a part of Xe Pian National Protected Area.[2] Wetlands includes about 400 ha of high quality peat land and about 1,000 ha of seasonal semi-peatland with a low quality of peat.
The Beung Kiat Ngong Wetland is situated in a monsoonal zone with one distinct dry season (late October-early May) and one distinct wet season (late May-October). Temperatures range from a minimum low of 14.5oC in January (humidity 32-95%) to a maximum high of 38.3oC in April (humidity 39-96%), with humidity approaching 99% throughout the wet season. Average annual rainfall at the site is around 2,000 mm with up to one third of the rainfall recorded during the month of August.[5]