Annamite Range
ພູ ຫລວງ / Dãy Trường Sơn
Annamite Range in Pu Mat National Park, Vietnam
Highest point
Peak	Phou Bia
Elevation	2,598 m (8,524 ft)
Coordinates	18°35′30″N 103°48′0″E / 18.59167°N 103.8°E / 18.59167; 103.8Coordinates: 18°35′30″N 103°48′0″E / 18.59167°N 103.8°E / 18.59167; 103.8
Dimensions
Length	1,100 km (680 mi) NW/SE
Width	130 km (81 mi) NE/SW
Geography
Countries	Laos and Vietnam
Geology
Period	Triassic

Annamite Range in Hương Sơn District, Hà Tĩnh Province, Việt Nam

Landscape south of the Annamite Mountain Range near Hoi Yen, Quang Nam Province, Việt Nam

The Annamite Range or the Annamese Mountains is a mountain range of eastern Indochina, which extends approximately 1,100 km (680 mi) through Laos, Vietnam, and a small area in northeast Cambodia. It is known in Vietnamese as Dãy Trường Sơn, in Lao as Xai Phou Luang (ພູ ຫລວງ), and in French as the Chaîne Annamitique. The mountain range is also referred to variously as Annamese Range, Annamese Mountains, Annamese Cordillera, Annamite Mountains and Annamite Cordillera.

The highest points of the range are 2,819 m high Phou Bia, 2,720 m high Phu Xai Lai Leng and Ngọc Linh (Ngoc Pan), 2,598 m (8,524 ft). The latter is located at the northwestern edge of the Triassic Kontum Massif, in central Vietnam.^[1]

The Annamite Range runs parallel to the Vietnamese coast, in a gentle curve which divides the basin of the Mekong River from Vietnam's narrow coastal plain along the South China Sea. Most of the crests are on the Laotian side. The eastern slope of the range rises steeply from the plain, drained by numerous short rivers. The western slope is more gentle, forming significant plateaus before descending to the banks of the Mekong. The range itself has three main plateaus, from north to south: Phouane Plateau, Nakai Plateau and Bolaven Plateau.

Laos lies mostly within the Mekong basin, west of the divide, although most of Houaphan Province and a portion of Xiangkhoang Province (where the famous Plain of Jars is located) lie east of the divide. Most of Vietnam lies east of the divide, although Vietnam's Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) region lies west of the divide, in the Mekong basin.

Ecology[link]

The Annamite mountains now form an important tropical moist broadleaf forest global ecoregion, the Annamite Range Moist Forests Ecoregion, which consists in two terrestrial ecoregions, the Southern Annamites montane rain forests and the Northern Annamites rain forests ecoregion.^[2]

The range is home to rare creatures such as the recently-discovered Annamite rabbit and the antelope-like saola, the Douc langur, the large gaur, the Chinese Pangolin and the Indochinese tiger.

See also[link]

• List of Ultras of Southeast Asia

References[link]

External links[link]

• BBC In Pictures: Uncovering Viet Nam's secret wildlife
• Cat Tien National Park
• Paleoanthropology in mainland Southeast Asia; Tam Hang, Laos
• Malaria in Montagnard country in Vietnam (French)

Vincent Scotto (21 April 1874 in Marseille – 15 November 1952 in Paris) was a French composer.^[1]

Biography[link]

Vincent Scotto started his career in Marseille in 1906 and later moved to Paris. Over the course of a lifetime, he wrote 4,000 songs as well as sixty operettas. He was friends with Marcel Pagnol and wrote music for his films. Overtime, he wrote music for about fifty films in the 1940s and 1950s, and sometimes appeared in them as an actor^[2].

In 1973, a biographical TV film was broadcast, La Vie rêvée de Vincent Scotto^[3].

Legacy[link]

A bust of Vincent Scotto can be found facing the Vieux Port in Place aux Huiles, Marseille.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Vincent Scotto at the Internet Movie Database
• Vincent Scotto at the Internet Broadway Database

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