placeThe Ping
แม่น้ำปิง · Mae Nam Ping
The river the city was built a kilometre away from, on purpose.
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What it is
The river east of the old city. Mangrai put the square on the higher ground between Doi Suthep and the Ping rather than on the bank; the bank flooded then and it floods now. Every bridge across it is counted on this site from the map, and the ones with a story have a record.
The long version
In October 2024 the gauge at Nawarat Bridge, P.1, read 5.30 m at noon on 5 October, 1.10 m over the bank, 638 cubic metres a second. Tha Phae Road flooded from the bridge to the bank at Krung Thai; the Superhighway, the Don Chan and Chiang Kham overpasses, all of Mahidol Road, Warorot Market, the railway station and Nong Prathip junction went under. The water stood about 2 km east of the river.
Connected to
- Road bridges over the Ping, counted How many bridges, counted.
- Nawarat Bridge The gauge is on it.
- The day the river came up Tha Phae The flood, told.
Named here by
- Bock's route to the north, 1881 How he came up.
- Road bridges over the Ping, counted The river.
- The day the river came up Tha Phae The river.
- Wiang Kum Kam What drowned it.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Ping River — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, in the northern register where it fits; not machine-translated |
Sources
- Ping River — Wikipedia (en)
- น้ำท่วมเชียงใหม่ 7 ต.ค. 2567 — ถนนที่จม — Lanner
- น้ำท่วมเชียงใหม่ 2567 — ระดับน้ำ P.1 — Thai PBS
- น้ำปิงท่วมเชียงใหม่ ต.ค. 2567 — Bangkok Biz News
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there