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A baray (Khmer: បារាយណ៍) is an artificial body of water which is a common element of the architectural style of the Khmer Empire of Southeast Asia. The largest are the East Baray [ 1 ] and West Baray in the Angkor area, each rectangular in shape, oriented east-west and measuring roughly five by one and a half miles.
Today the baray retains water in its western end year-round. In the rainy season, water advances to the eastern dike. With clear, still waters, the baray today is a popular place for swimming and boat rides by local residents. It has occasionally served as a landing site for seaplanes.
The East Baray today contains no water; farmers till crops on its bed. But its outlines remain clearly visible in satellite photographs. In the middle of the baray is the East Mebon temple, located on elevated ground that was an island in the days when the baray contained water.
According to the 1998 census of Cambodia, the Baray District consisted of 18 communes and had a population of 159,586. [2] The population recorded by the 2008 census was 167,581.
The East Baray is now dry. The West Mebon is an 11th-century temple standing at the center of the West Baray and the East Mebon is a 10th-century temple standing at the center of the East Baray. [17] The baray associated with Preah Khan is the Jayataka, in the middle of which stands the 12th-century temple of Neak Pean.
Baray is an administrative ward in the Karatu district of the Arusha Region of Tanzania. The ward is home to the Hadza . According to the 2012 census, the ward has a total population of 23,554.
The Baray (Russian: Барайы; Yakut: Барайы, Barayı) is a river in the Sakha Republic , Russia, a right tributary of the Aldan, part of the Lena basin. The Baray has a length of 251 kilometres (156 mi) and a drainage basin area of 4,880 square kilometres (1,880 sq mi). [ 1 ]
Sras Srang was dug in the mid-10th century, by initiative of Kavindrarimathana, Buddhist minister of Rajendravarman II. [1] It was modified around the year 1200 by Jayavarman VII, [2]: 125 who added the laterite landing-stage at its western side, probably because the East Baray had been overwhelmed by sediment and had begun malfunctioning.