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Central Highlands (Vietnam)

June 02, 2023

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The Central Highlands (Vietnamese: Cao nguyên Trung phần), Western Highlands (Vietnamese: Tây Nguyên) or Midland Highlands (Vietnamese: Cao nguyên Trung bộ) is a region located in the south central part of Vietnam. It contains the provinces of Đắk Lắk, Đắk Nông, Gia Lai, Kon Tum, and Lâm Đồng.

Location in Vietnam

Provinces

Statistics of the Central Highlands
Province-
Level
Division 		Capital Population
(2019) 		Area
(km2)
Đắk Lắk Buôn Ma Thuột 2,126,925 13,139.2 km2
Đắk Nông Gia Nghĩa 574,633 6,516.9 km2
Gia Lai Pleiku 2,211,102 15,536.9 km2
Kon Tum Kon Tum 476,855 9,690.5 km2
Lâm Đồng Da Lat 1,551,120 9,776.1 km2

History

Main articles: Degar and Nam tiến

The native inhabitants of the Central Highlands (Montagnards, Mountain peoples) are various peoples that mainly belonged to the two major Austronesian (Highland Chamic) and Austroasiatic (Bahnaric) ethnolinguistic families. According to Peng et al. (2010) & Liu et al. (2020), Austronesian Chamic groups were well known of being seafarers with the original homeland of Taiwan, might have migrated to present-day Central Vietnam by sea from Maritime Southeast Asia around ~ 2,500 kya, while were making contact/or possibly absorbed the previously earlier Austroasiatic inhabitants (research shows shared high frequencies of AA-associated ancestry among Vietnam's Austronesian Chamic highlanders than Austronesian Chamic lowlanders which are more related with Taiwanese AN groups).[1][2]

Throughout pre-modern history, the Central Highlands were not under the control of surrounding lowland classical kingdoms, thus much of prehistoric indigenous cultures were preserved. Highlands and mountains acted like barricades that curtailed much of the lowland influences on the Central Highlands people. The region falls into the geographical category described by James C. Scott as terra zomia, a huge mountainous landmass of Mainland Southeast Asia (including Southern China and Northeast India).[3]

During the early fifteenth century, the northern part of Central Highlands (around present-day An Khê) had a dubious ruler named Śrī Gajarāja (King of the Elephants) with the title "The great king of the Montagnards of Madhyamagrāma" ("big village"), who was a vassal of Cham king Indravarman VI (r. 1400–1441) in the lowland.[4] Despite geographic barriers, the Cham extensively used the Highlands as their resources backyard to provide medieval commodities. They also built several temples in the Highlands, for example, the temple of Yang Prong (in Đắk Lắk province) constructed by king Simhavarman III (r. 1288–1307). It is evident that Chamic-speaking peoples of the lowlands had engaged direct contacts and trade with the peoples of the Central Highlands for a long time before Vietnamese colonialism, resulting in mutual linguistic borrowings in both colloquial languages and cultural similarities.

Ethnic Vietnamese (Kinh) people arrived in the area during their "march to the south" (Nam tiến). The Vietnamese now outnumber the indigenous Degars after state-sponsored settlement directed by both the government of the Republic of Vietnam and the current Communist government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The Montagnards have fought against and resisted all Vietnamese settlers, from the anti-Communist South Vietnamese government, the Viet Cong, to the Communist government of unified Vietnam.

The Champa state and Chams in the lowlands were traditional suzerains whom the Montagnards in the highlands acknowledged as their lords, while autonomy was held by the Montagnards.[5] After 1945, concept of "Nam tiến" and the southward expansion was celebrated by Vietnamese scholars.[6] The Pays Montagnard du Sud-Indochinois was the name of the Central Highlands from 1946 under French Indochina.[7]

Up until French rule, the Central Highlands was almost never entered by the Vietnamese since they viewed it as a savage (Moi-Montagnard) populated area with fierce animals like tigers, "poisoned water" and "evil malevolent spirits." The Vietnamese expressed interest in the land after the French transformed it into a profitable plantation area to grow crops on,[8] in addition to the natural resources from the forests, minerals and rich earth and realization of its crucial geographical importance.[9]

An insurgency was waged by Montagnards in FULRO against South Vietnam and then unified Communist Vietnam.[10] A settlement program of ethnic Kinh Vietnamese by the governments of the Republic of Vietnam and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam was implemented[11][12] and now a Kinh majority predominates in the highland areas.[13] After mass demonstrations and protests during 2001 and 2004 by ethnic hill tribe minorities against the communist government, foreigners were banned from the Central Highlands for a period of time.[14][15]

Geography

 
Dong Son village in Đắk Lắk Province, surrounded by mountains.

Central Highlands is a plateau bordering the lower part of Laos and northeastern Cambodia. Kon Tum Province shares a border with both Laos and Cambodia but Gia Lai Province and Đắk Lắk Province only share borders with Cambodia. Lâm Đồng Province is landlocked, like four other provinces in the region, but has no international border.

Actually, Central Highlands is not situated on a unique plateau, instead, it lies on a series of contiguous plateaus, namely Kon Tum Plateau at the height of 500 m, Kon Plông Plateau, Kon Hà Nừng Plateau, Pleiku Plateau with the height of around 800m, Mdrak Plateau of approximately 500 m, Đắk Lắk Plateau of around 800m, Mơ Nông Plateau with the height of about 800–1000 m, Lâm Viên Plateau of approximately 1500 m and Di Linh Plateau of about 900–1000 m. All of these plateaux are surrounded by high mountain ranges and mounts (South Annamite Range).

Tây Nguyên can be divided into 3 subregions according to its deviation in topography and climate, namely: North Tây Nguyên (Bắc Tây Nguyên) (inclusive of Kon Tum and Gia Lai provinces), Middle Tây Nguyên (Trung Tây Nguyên) (covering provinces of Đắk Lắk and Đắk Nông), South Tây Nguyên (Nam Tây Nguyên) (Lâm Đồng). Trung Tây Nguyên has a lower altitude and therefore has a higher temperature than the other two subregions.

Ethnic groups

See also: List of ethnic groups in Vietnam
 
Distribution of ethnic groups in the Central Highlands

Below is a list of officially recognized ethnic groups in Vietnam that are indigenous to the Central Highlands and nearby areas. They speak Austroasiatic languages of the Katuic and Bahnaric, as well as Chamic languages (which belong to the Austronesian language family). Population statistics are from the 2009 Vietnam Population Census.

Listed by province, from north to south as well as west to east:

Culture

Bahnar is the second ethnic group, after the Kinh people, to have their language written based on Latin script by French missionaries in 1861. The Ede people, then, had their writing system in 1923. The first known epic poetry Dam San was compiled and published in Paris, France, under the name Le Chanson de DamSan. The bilingual Ede-French edition was then released in 1933 by the French School of the Far East's magazine in Hanoi. In February 1949, a priceless prehistoric lithophone named Ndut Lieng Krak was discovered in Dak Lak, which is now kept at the Museum of Mankind, Paris. The space of gong culture in the Central Highlands of Vietnam was recognized by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on January 15, 2005.

Economy, natural resources, society, and environment

In comparison with other regions in Vietnam, the Central Highlands has to encounter great difficulties in socio-economic conditions such as the skilled labor shortage, poor infrastructure, possibilities of ethnic-group conflict in a small area and a low standard of living. This area, however, has been blessed with many advantages in natural resources. The region is home to nearly 2 million hectares of fertile basalt, making up for 60% of the national basalt soil, which is very suitable for industrial crops such as coffee, cocoa, pepper, mulberry, and tea. Coffee is the most important industrial commodity of the Central Highlands. The current coffee area here is over 290 thousand hectares, accounting for 4/5 of the country's coffee area. Dak Lak is the province with the widest coffee area (170 thousand hectares) and Buon Ma Thuot coffee is famous for its high quality. The Central Highlands is also the second-largest rubber tree region after the Southeast, mainly in Gia Lai and Dak Lak. The Central Highlands is the most enormous mulberry and silkworm area in our country as well, the most in Bao Loc Lam Dong. This place has a consortium of the largest silk incubators exported in Vietnam.

Unequal land and resource allocation also spark many disputes. Previously, the government aimed to exploit the Central Highlands of Vietnam by establishing a system of state-owned agriculture and forestry farms (before 1993, there were major agricultural-forestry-industry Union Enterprises, which switched to central or provincial agriculture and forestry farms after the same year). In reality, these economic organizations control most of the Central Highlands’ land. In Dak Lak province, by 1985, three agricultural-forestry-industry Union Enterprises managed 1,058,000 hectares, which accounted for half of the province's area, plus 1,600,000 hectares of state-owned rubber tree growing area. In total, the state runs 90% of Dak Lak’s area, and 60% of Gia Lai’s. Overall, by 1985, 70% of the Central Highlands’ surface area was under the state's management. After 1993, although there was a shift in management mechanism, this number only decreased by 26%.

Forest resources and forestry land areas in Tay Nguyen are facing the risk of serious attenuation due to different reasons, such as small unowned area of deep forest is being trespassed by newly arrived migrants for residential and production purposes (which rapidly increases the agricultural land in the whole region), as well as deforestation and illegal exploitation of forest products. Due to the attenuation of forest resources, the output of logging has constantly been decreasing, from 600 to 700 thousand square meters in the late 1980s - early 1990s to about 200-300 thousand square meters per year at the moment. Currently, local authorities are experimenting with allocating, leasing forestry land to organizations, households and individuals for stable usage and forest allocation, and contracting to forests protection for households and communities in the villages.

With the geographical advantages of highland and numerous waterfalls, hydropower resources of the area are large and are used effectively. Two hydroelectric power stations built in this region before are Da Nhim (160.00 kW) on Da Nhim River (source of Dong Nai River) and Dray H’inh (120.000 kW) on Serepok River. Moreover, the Yaly Hydropower Project has been in operation since 2000; other projects such as Bon Ron-Dai Ninh and Play Krong have been expected to build recently. Tay Nguyen (the central highland of Vietnam) does not abound in mineral resources but is abundant in bauxite reserves measuring at billions of tons.

According to old Soviet documents, the Central Highlands holds about 8 billion tons of bauxite reserve. On November 1, 2007, the Prime Minister signed Decision no.167 to approve the zoning plan for exploration, mining, processing and using of bauxite ore in the 2007–2015, orientation to 2025. Vietnam National Coal - Mineral Industries Group is currently exploring and investing in some bauxite exploring, alumina mining projects in the Central Highlands. However, this implementation has generated fierce opposition from scientists and local people due to the environmental destruction and the negative impacts on social culture, especially the indigenous culture of the Central Highlands.

Tourist attractions

Đắk Lắk

With an average elevation of 400 - 800m above sea level, Dak Lak Province is located in the Dak Lak Plateau, which is one of the three largest plateaus in the Central Highlands. Dak Lak borders Gia Lai to the north and north-east, Lam Dong to the south, Cambodia to the west, Phu Yen and Khanh Hoa to the east.

Dak Lak is home to many majestic waterfalls and lakes such as Thuy Tien Waterfall, Lak Lake, Buon Triet Lake, Ea Kao Lake.

There are primeval forests, Yok Don National Park and Ea Kao Ecological Park.

Don village is well known for elephant hunting and taming, historical relics such as Cham tơers in the 13th century, Bao Dai Palace and Buon Ma Thuot Prison.

Ðắk Nông

Dak Nong Province is located in the southwest of Central Vietnam, at the end of the Truong Son Range and lies on a large plateau with an elevation of 500 meters above sea level.

Dak Nong is renowned for the majestic landscape of waterfalls, nighttime campfires with the sound of gongs and the local-favored stem wine.

The Srepok river with its tributaries form numerous stunning cascades, which can be mild at some points, and real havoc at another. Even more noticeable are Gia Long waterfall with the shape of a wildly sleeping mountain girl and Dray Nur waterfall, which resembles a Great wall of nature. Besides, there are also falls of Dieu Thanh, Three Layers and Dray Sap, also known as Smoke waterfall since it is obscured by layers of water mist all year round.

Gia Lai

Gia Lai is a province in the mountainous region located in the north of The Central Highlands with an elevation of 600-800m. Gia Lai borders Kon Tum in the north, Dak Lak in the south, Cambodia in the west, and Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh, Phu Yen in the east.

This region possesses a long history and an ancient culture. This culture's identity is intricately involved with ethnic minorities, primarily Gia Rai and Ba Na. Their specificities are exhibited through communal houses, stilt houses, funeral houses, traditional festivals, costumes and musical instruments.

Gia lai is home to numerous lakes, streams, waterfalls, mountain passes, and primeval forests where natural scenes hold the stunning wilderness of The Central Highlands such as Kon Ka Kinh and Kon Cha Rang tropical forests.

Coming to Gia Lai, Xung Khoeng waterfall (Chu Prong district) and Phu Cuong waterfall (Chu Se district) are indispensable destinations. There are many mesmerizing streams such as White Rock Creek, Dream Spring. Moreover, other landscapes are not as beautiful as Mong ferry on Pa river, Pleiku Lake on an immense and tranquil mountain, Ham Rong Mountain with a height of 1.092m whose ridge is an inactive crater.

Kon Tum

Kon Tum is a province to the north of Gia Lai - Kon Tum plateau, which is one of the three biggest ones in Tay Nguyen.

Kom Tum City is built on Đắk Bla riverside, a branch of Pơ Ko river. It is also a former French Administrative Center. French missionaries arrived here in 1851.

There are Ngoc Linh Mountain, Chu Mon Ray, Sa Thay primitive forest, Đắk Tre tourism area, and Đắk Tô hot springs. There are more than 20 ethnic groups, the most populated of whom are Ba Na, Xo Dang, Gie Triêng, Gia Rai, B Rau, Ro Min, etc.

Most of the ethnic minorities live by shifting cultivation and hunting. There is a diverse and colorful culture in the community of ethnic groups in Tay Nguyen.

Agriculture

Tây Nguyên contains in it many primitive forests and is protected in its national parks, such as Cát Tiên National Park, Yok Đôn National Park, Kon Ka Kinh National Park. The region has an average altitude of 500–600 m with basalt soil, suitable for planting coffee tree, cacao, pepper, and white mulberry. Cashew and rubber plants are also planted here. Coffee is the most important product of Tây Nguyên, with production centred in Đắk Lắk Province. The provincial capital of Buôn Ma Thuột hosts a number of major coffee factories, including ones owned by major producer Trung Nguyên. Tây Nguyên is also the third natural bauxite source in the world[citation needed]. Plans for bauxite mining in the area have met with some controversy, both because of the environmental impact of the proposed operations and because of labour issues.

Flora and fauna

Tây Nguyên is home to the most prominent and also the most endangered species in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, namely, the Indochinese tiger, the huge gaur, the Wild Asian Water Buffalo, the banteng, and the Asian elephant.

In 2012, at least three Vietnamese soldiers were arrested and imprisoned for their online pictures showing them torturing and killing Gray-shanked douc Langurs.[16]

References

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External links

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6 Economy natural resources society and environment 7 Tourist attractions 7 1 Đắk Lắk 7 2 Dắk Nong 7 3 Gia Lai 7 4 Kon Tum 8 Agriculture 9 Flora and fauna 10 References 11 External linksProvinces EditStatistics of the Central Highlands Province LevelDivision Capital Population 2019 Area km2 Đắk Lắk Buon Ma Thuột 2 126 925 13 139 2 km2Đắk Nong Gia Nghĩa 574 633 6 516 9 km2Gia Lai Pleiku 2 211 102 15 536 9 km2Kon Tum Kon Tum 476 855 9 690 5 km2Lam Đồng Da Lat 1 551 120 9 776 1 km2History EditMain articles Degar and Nam tiến The native inhabitants of the Central Highlands Montagnards Mountain peoples are various peoples that mainly belonged to the two major Austronesian Highland Chamic and Austroasiatic Bahnaric ethnolinguistic families According to Peng et al 2010 amp Liu et al 2020 Austronesian Chamic groups were well known of being seafarers with the original homeland of Taiwan might have migrated to present day Central Vietnam by sea from Maritime Southeast Asia around 2 500 kya while were making contact or possibly absorbed the previously earlier Austroasiatic inhabitants research shows shared high frequencies of AA associated ancestry among Vietnam s Austronesian Chamic highlanders than Austronesian Chamic lowlanders which are more related with Taiwanese AN groups 1 2 Throughout pre modern history the Central Highlands were not under the control of surrounding lowland classical kingdoms thus much of prehistoric indigenous cultures were preserved Highlands and mountains acted like barricades that curtailed much of the lowland influences on the Central Highlands people The region falls into the geographical category described by James C Scott as terra zomia a huge mountainous landmass of Mainland Southeast Asia including Southern China and Northeast India 3 During the early fifteenth century the northern part of Central Highlands around present day An Khe had a dubious ruler named Sri Gajaraja King of the Elephants with the title The great king of the Montagnards of Madhyamagrama big village who was a vassal of Cham king Indravarman VI r 1400 1441 in the lowland 4 Despite geographic barriers the Cham extensively used the Highlands as their resources backyard to provide medieval commodities They also built several temples in the Highlands for example the temple of Yang Prong in Đắk Lắk province constructed by king Simhavarman III r 1288 1307 It is evident that Chamic speaking peoples of the lowlands had engaged direct contacts and trade with the peoples of the Central Highlands for a long time before Vietnamese colonialism resulting in mutual linguistic borrowings in both colloquial languages and cultural similarities Ethnic Vietnamese Kinh people arrived in the area during their march to the south Nam tiến The Vietnamese now outnumber the indigenous Degars after state sponsored settlement directed by both the government of the Republic of Vietnam and the current Communist government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam The Montagnards have fought against and resisted all Vietnamese settlers from the anti Communist South Vietnamese government the Viet Cong to the Communist government of unified Vietnam The Champa state and Chams in the lowlands were traditional suzerains whom the Montagnards in the highlands acknowledged as their lords while autonomy was held by the Montagnards 5 After 1945 concept of Nam tiến and the southward expansion was celebrated by Vietnamese scholars 6 The Pays Montagnard du Sud Indochinois was the name of the Central Highlands from 1946 under French Indochina 7 Up until French rule the Central Highlands was almost never entered by the Vietnamese since they viewed it as a savage Moi Montagnard populated area with fierce animals like tigers poisoned water and evil malevolent spirits The Vietnamese expressed interest in the land after the French transformed it into a profitable plantation area to grow crops on 8 in addition to the natural resources from the forests minerals and rich earth and realization of its crucial geographical importance 9 An insurgency was waged by Montagnards in FULRO against South Vietnam and then unified Communist Vietnam 10 A settlement program of ethnic Kinh Vietnamese by the governments of the Republic of Vietnam and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam was implemented 11 12 and now a Kinh majority predominates in the highland areas 13 After mass demonstrations and protests during 2001 and 2004 by ethnic hill tribe minorities against the communist government foreigners were banned from the Central Highlands for a period of time 14 15 Geography Edit Dong Son village in Đắk Lắk Province surrounded by mountains Central Highlands is a plateau bordering the lower part of Laos and northeastern Cambodia Kon Tum Province shares a border with both Laos and Cambodia but Gia Lai Province and Đắk Lắk Province only share borders with Cambodia Lam Đồng Province is landlocked like four other provinces in the region but has no international border Actually Central Highlands is not situated on a unique plateau instead it lies on a series of contiguous plateaus namely Kon Tum Plateau at the height of 500 m Kon Plong Plateau Kon Ha Nừng Plateau Pleiku Plateau with the height of around 800m Mdrak Plateau of approximately 500 m Đắk Lắk Plateau of around 800m Mơ Nong Plateau with the height of about 800 1000 m Lam Vien Plateau of approximately 1500 m and Di Linh Plateau of about 900 1000 m All of these plateaux are surrounded by high mountain ranges and mounts South Annamite Range Tay Nguyen can be divided into 3 subregions according to its deviation in topography and climate namely North Tay Nguyen Bắc Tay Nguyen inclusive of Kon Tum and Gia Lai provinces Middle Tay Nguyen Trung Tay Nguyen covering provinces of Đắk Lắk and Đắk Nong South Tay Nguyen Nam Tay Nguyen Lam Đồng Trung Tay Nguyen has a lower altitude and therefore has a higher temperature than the other two subregions Ethnic groups EditSee also List of ethnic groups in Vietnam Distribution of ethnic groups in the Central Highlands Below is a list of officially recognized ethnic groups in Vietnam that are indigenous to the Central Highlands and nearby areas They speak Austroasiatic languages of the Katuic and Bahnaric as well as Chamic languages which belong to the Austronesian language family Population statistics are from the 2009 Vietnam Population Census Katuic speakers Bru 2009 population 74 506 Quảng Trị Province Cơ Tu 2009 population 61 588 Quảng Nam Province Ta Oi 2009 population 43 886 Thừa Thien Huế Province and Quảng Trị Province Bahnaric speakers West Bahnaric Brau 2009 population 397 Kon Tum Province East Bahnaric Co 2009 population 33 817 Quảng Ngai Province North Bahnaric Xơ Đăng 2009 population 169 501 Kon Tum Province and Quảng Nam Province Hre 2009 population 127 420 Quảng Ngai Province Rơ Măm 2009 population 436 Kon Tum Province Central Bahnaric Ba Na 2009 population 227 716 Gia Lai Province and Kon Tum Province Giẻ Trieng 2009 population 50 962 Kon Tum Province and Quảng Nam Province South Bahnaric Chơ Ro 2009 population 26 855 Đồng Nai Province Cờ Ho 2009 population 166 112 Lam Đồng Province Mạ 2009 population 41 405 Lam Đồng Province X Tieng 2009 population 85 436 Binh Phước Province Mnong 2009 population 102 741 Đắk Lắk Province and Đắk Nong Province Chamic speakers Chăm 2009 population 161 729 Ninh Thuận Province and Binh Thuận Province Chu Ru 2009 population 19 314 Lam Đồng Province E Đe 2009 population 331 194 Đắk Lắk Province Gia Rai 2009 population 411 275 Gia Lai Province Ra Glai 2009 population 122 245 Ninh Thuận Province and Khanh Hoa ProvinceListed by province from north to south as well as west to east Quảng Trị Province Bru Katuic Ta Oi Katuic Thừa Thien Huế Province Ta Oi Katuic Quảng Nam Province Cơ Tu Katuic Xơ Đăng North Bahnaric Giẻ Trieng Central Bahnaric Quảng Ngai Province Hre North Bahnaric Co East Bahnaric Kon Tum Province Giẻ Trieng Central Bahnaric Ba Na Central Bahnaric Xơ Đăng North Bahnaric Rơ Măm North Bahnaric Brau West Bahnaric Gia Lai Province Gia Rai Chamic Ba Na Central Bahnaric Đắk Lắk Province E Đe Chamic Mnong South Bahnaric Khanh Hoa Province Ra Glai Chamic Đắk Nong Province Mnong South Bahnaric Lam Đồng Province Chu Ru Chamic Mạ South Bahnaric Cờ Ho South Bahnaric Ninh Thuận Province Ra Glai Chamic Chăm Chamic Binh Phước Province X Tieng South Bahnaric Đồng Nai Province Chơ Ro South Bahnaric Binh Thuận Province Chăm Chamic Culture EditBahnar is the second ethnic group after the Kinh people to have their language written based on Latin script by French missionaries in 1861 The Ede people then had their writing system in 1923 The first known epic poetry Dam San was compiled and published in Paris France under the name Le Chanson de DamSan The bilingual Ede French edition was then released in 1933 by the French School of the Far East s magazine in Hanoi In February 1949 a priceless prehistoric lithophone named Ndut Lieng Krak was discovered in Dak Lak which is now kept at the Museum of Mankind Paris The space of gong culture in the Central Highlands of Vietnam was recognized by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on January 15 2005 Economy natural resources society and environment EditIn comparison with other regions in Vietnam the Central Highlands has to encounter great difficulties in socio economic conditions such as the skilled labor shortage poor infrastructure possibilities of ethnic group conflict in a small area and a low standard of living This area however has been blessed with many advantages in natural resources The region is home to nearly 2 million hectares of fertile basalt making up for 60 of the national basalt soil which is very suitable for industrial crops such as coffee cocoa pepper mulberry and tea Coffee is the most important industrial commodity of the Central Highlands The current coffee area here is over 290 thousand hectares accounting for 4 5 of the country s coffee area Dak Lak is the province with the widest coffee area 170 thousand hectares and Buon Ma Thuot coffee is famous for its high quality The Central Highlands is also the second largest rubber tree region after the Southeast mainly in Gia Lai and Dak Lak The Central Highlands is the most enormous mulberry and silkworm area in our country as well the most in Bao Loc Lam Dong This place has a consortium of the largest silk incubators exported in Vietnam Unequal land and resource allocation also spark many disputes Previously the government aimed to exploit the Central Highlands of Vietnam by establishing a system of state owned agriculture and forestry farms before 1993 there were major agricultural forestry industry Union Enterprises which switched to central or provincial agriculture and forestry farms after the same year In reality these economic organizations control most of the Central Highlands land In Dak Lak province by 1985 three agricultural forestry industry Union Enterprises managed 1 058 000 hectares which accounted for half of the province s area plus 1 600 000 hectares of state owned rubber tree growing area In total the state runs 90 of Dak Lak s area and 60 of Gia Lai s Overall by 1985 70 of the Central Highlands surface area was under the state s management After 1993 although there was a shift in management mechanism this number only decreased by 26 Forest resources and forestry land areas in Tay Nguyen are facing the risk of serious attenuation due to different reasons such as small unowned area of deep forest is being trespassed by newly arrived migrants for residential and production purposes which rapidly increases the agricultural land in the whole region as well as deforestation and illegal exploitation of forest products Due to the attenuation of forest resources the output of logging has constantly been decreasing from 600 to 700 thousand square meters in the late 1980s early 1990s to about 200 300 thousand square meters per year at the moment Currently local authorities are experimenting with allocating leasing forestry land to organizations households and individuals for stable usage and forest allocation and contracting to forests protection for households and communities in the villages With the geographical advantages of highland and numerous waterfalls hydropower resources of the area are large and are used effectively Two hydroelectric power stations built in this region before are Da Nhim 160 00 kW on Da Nhim River source of Dong Nai River and Dray H inh 120 000 kW on Serepok River Moreover the Yaly Hydropower Project has been in operation since 2000 other projects such as Bon Ron Dai Ninh and Play Krong have been expected to build recently Tay Nguyen the central highland of Vietnam does not abound in mineral resources but is abundant in bauxite reserves measuring at billions of tons According to old Soviet documents the Central Highlands holds about 8 billion tons of bauxite reserve On November 1 2007 the Prime Minister signed Decision no 167 to approve the zoning plan for exploration mining processing and using of bauxite ore in the 2007 2015 orientation to 2025 Vietnam National Coal Mineral Industries Group is currently exploring and investing in some bauxite exploring alumina mining projects in the Central Highlands However this implementation has generated fierce opposition from scientists and local people due to the environmental destruction and the negative impacts on social culture especially the indigenous culture of the Central Highlands Tourist attractions EditĐắk Lắk Edit With an average elevation of 400 800m above sea level Dak Lak Province is located in the Dak Lak Plateau which is one of the three largest plateaus in the Central Highlands Dak Lak borders Gia Lai to the north and north east Lam Dong to the south Cambodia to the west Phu Yen and Khanh Hoa to the east Dak Lak is home to many majestic waterfalls and lakes such as Thuy Tien Waterfall Lak Lake Buon Triet Lake Ea Kao Lake There are primeval forests Yok Don National Park and Ea Kao Ecological Park Don village is well known for elephant hunting and taming historical relics such as Cham tơers in the 13th century Bao Dai Palace and Buon Ma Thuot Prison Dắk Nong Edit Dak Nong Province is located in the southwest of Central Vietnam at the end of the Truong Son Range and lies on a large plateau with an elevation of 500 meters above sea level Dak Nong is renowned for the majestic landscape of waterfalls nighttime campfires with the sound of gongs and the local favored stem wine The Srepok river with its tributaries form numerous stunning cascades which can be mild at some points and real havoc at another Even more noticeable are Gia Long waterfall with the shape of a wildly sleeping mountain girl and Dray Nur waterfall which resembles a Great wall of nature Besides there are also falls of Dieu Thanh Three Layers and Dray Sap also known as Smoke waterfall since it is obscured by layers of water mist all year round Gia Lai Edit Gia Lai is a province in the mountainous region located in the north of The Central Highlands with an elevation of 600 800m Gia Lai borders Kon Tum in the north Dak Lak in the south Cambodia in the west and Quang Ngai Binh Dinh Phu Yen in the east This region possesses a long history and an ancient culture This culture s identity is intricately involved with ethnic minorities primarily Gia Rai and Ba Na Their specificities are exhibited through communal houses stilt houses funeral houses traditional festivals costumes and musical instruments Gia lai is home to numerous lakes streams waterfalls mountain passes and primeval forests where natural scenes hold the stunning wilderness of The Central Highlands such as Kon Ka Kinh and Kon Cha Rang tropical forests Coming to Gia Lai Xung Khoeng waterfall Chu Prong district and Phu Cuong waterfall Chu Se district are indispensable destinations There are many mesmerizing streams such as White Rock Creek Dream Spring Moreover other landscapes are not as beautiful as Mong ferry on Pa river Pleiku Lake on an immense and tranquil mountain Ham Rong Mountain with a height of 1 092m whose ridge is an inactive crater Kon Tum Edit Kon Tum is a province to the north of Gia Lai Kon Tum plateau which is one of the three biggest ones in Tay Nguyen Kom Tum City is built on Đắk Bla riverside a branch of Pơ Ko river It is also a former French Administrative Center French missionaries arrived here in 1851 There are Ngoc Linh Mountain Chu Mon Ray Sa Thay primitive forest Đắk Tre tourism area and Đắk To hot springs There are more than 20 ethnic groups the most populated of whom are Ba Na Xo Dang Gie Trieng Gia Rai B Rau Ro Min etc Most of the ethnic minorities live by shifting cultivation and hunting There is a diverse and colorful culture in the community of ethnic groups in Tay Nguyen Agriculture EditTay Nguyen contains in it many primitive forests and is protected in its national parks such as Cat Tien National Park Yok Đon National Park Kon Ka Kinh National Park The region has an average altitude of 500 600 m with basalt soil suitable for planting coffee tree cacao pepper and white mulberry Cashew and rubber plants are also planted here Coffee is the most important product of Tay Nguyen with production centred in Đắk Lắk Province The provincial capital of Buon Ma Thuột hosts a number of major coffee factories including ones owned by major producer Trung Nguyen Tay Nguyen is also the third natural bauxite source in the world citation needed Plans for bauxite mining in the area have met with some controversy both because of the environmental impact of the proposed operations and because of labour issues Flora and fauna EditTay Nguyen is home to the most prominent and also the most endangered species in Vietnam and Southeast Asia namely the Indochinese tiger the huge gaur the Wild Asian Water Buffalo the banteng and the Asian elephant In 2012 at least three Vietnamese soldiers were arrested and imprisoned for their online pictures showing them torturing and killing Gray shanked douc Langurs 16 References Edit Peng MS Quang HH Dang KP Trieu AV Wang HW Yao YG Kong QP Zhang YP October 2010 Tracing the Austronesian footprint in Mainland Southeast Asia a perspective from mitochondrial DNA Molecular Biology and Evolution 27 10 2417 2430 doi 10 1093 molbev msq131 Liu D Duong NT Ton ND Van Phong N Pakendorf B Van Hai N Stoneking M April 2020 Extensive ethnolinguistic diversity in Vietnam reflects multiple sources of genetic diversity Molecular Biology and Evolution 37 9 2503 2519 doi 10 1093 molbev msaa099 PMC 7475039 PMID 32344428 Scott James C 2009 The Art of Not Being Governed An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia Yale Agrarian Studies New Haven amp London Yale University Press p ix Preface ISBN 978 0 300 15228 9 Zomia is a new name for virtually all the lands at altitudes above roughly three hundred meters all the way from the Central Highlands of Vietnam to northeastern India and traversing five Southeast 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