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Geographic Setting
The village is 33 kilometers from Muang Lamam. To the north is BanTock d’Ongkeo and Ban Daknong. Muang Snamxay of Attapu province is to the south. Ban Paô is to the east. Ban Toui Dan is to the West. The village site is 20,207 ha. For the strategic zone 4,213 ha was added. 548 ha was added for the exploitation zone. 8676,36 ha is secondary forest. 75 ha is for the water source. 20 ha is for a transportation route.
Ecosystem
The environs include the Talou waterfall (tèrabalu), the Phak waterfall, the Darpapung waterfall, the Yareng Slope. In this slope, there is is a large lake with beautiful meadows where rhinoceros and elephants live.
There is a natural grotto at the source of Houeimang, where the coffin of Nang Mang is hidden. According to legend, Nang Mang was a beautiful girl who died without reason, and then the corpse of the beautiful girl was taken by a spirit and the tomb is left empty to this day.
The rocks have the shape of flowers from Ban Kadonkao.
Habitat
History
Founded in 1976, this village is comprised of 5 associated agglomerations named Ban KasanLouang, Ban Kasannoi, Ban Kasangkang, and Ban Speng. The union is voluntary by the majority of the inhabitants and by the city and province revolutionary action. It is situated near Houei Lavi and cut by a road constructed during the French colonial period. Its ancient site is situated at Ban Taoul (birth village of Ong Keo).
The villagers are originally of the Halak (Alak) Hanyang , and from there they unified into one village. Their housing does not only consist of huts and provisionary shacks. They have built traditional or authentic houses since 1990.
Their generation has lost some treasures and valuable patronage: the Payen Jar (cost of 10 buffalos), the Pa ngô Jar (cost of 60 buffalos), three Yayung Jars (cost of nine buffalos each) and the Darpung Jar (cost nine buffalos).
Society
Language
Religion
All inhabitants are animists, practicing the cult of ancestors and the cult of PHIMUANG, believing in spirits of the forests and mountains. Traditional medicinal remedies are still taken in an atmosphere mixed with superstition and magic of the Mômon (sorcerer); Other medicine is dispensed from the closest hospital in the province.
Myth
Modern Political Organization
The village has 37 houses. Five are authentic. There are 110 families and 552 inhabitants with 285 of those being women. There is one house which is bigger and longer than the others, housing 12 families with 65 units. The agglomeration is directed by the chief of the village (mayor of the village) and two assistants who receive input from he federation of women, the safety organization, the committee for the protection of the forest and environment and the land ownership committee.
The majority of the village inhabitants are rice farmers (farm Rays). Some are also gardeners and fruit tree planters. The village has 6,90 ha and as increased gradually to 15,315 ha for new growth and 12 ha of garden.
Traditional Political Organization
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Trafficking
Gender
Health
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References
All documentation on these pages was collected by the Ethnographic data bank of Laos through the Institute of Cultural Research, Laos P.D.R. |
