Weat Baray "Lake"

The West Baray is a vast man-made lake (2.2 kilometers wide by 8 kilometers long and 5 meters depth). It holds the about (40.55million cubic meters). It was constructed in the reign of the king Suryavarman 1st (1002-1050) and Udayadityavarman 2nd (1050-1066). And an each dike surrounded it. According to some art-historians believed that the West Baray could have been used as.
* A mooring place for the Royal ship a reservoir for irrigation a site for breeding fish and also used as a landing field for seaplane in the middle of this century and during the reign of king Sihanouk his foreign visitors played the water-skied on this lake. According to the Khmer legend the young daughter of a king of Angkor was grabbed by a large crocodile which escaped through opening to the southern dike of Baray. It could be seen at the west of (Svay Romiet village). And finally the crocodile was captured and killed and the princess still living in its stomach was rescued.
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