Pakxé

Pakxé

Laos
also spelled  Pakse  

      town, in the southern panhandle of Laos, at the confluence of the Xédôn and Mekong rivers. Before 1966 Pakxé functioned as the chief port of entry of Laos. East of Pakxé begins the rolling Bolovens Plateau, nearly 3,300 feet (1,000 metres) high, for whose products—teak, tea, cinchona, kapok, and cardamom—Pakxé is the distributing centre. The town's industries include several sawmills, manufacture of bricks and tiles, and an ice plant; there is also an agricultural experimental station, a criminal court of appeals, and a secondary school. In 1970 the Selabam Dam of the Mekong River Valley Plan opened on the lower Xédôn, providing electricity for Pakxé and irrigation for the surrounding region. Pakxé is linked by road to the Thailand border and to Cambodia. Pop. (1995) 32,500.

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