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| Krabi
is a southern province on Thailand's Andaman
seaboard with perhaps the country's oldest history of
continued settlement. After dating stone tools, ancient
coloured pictures, beads, pottery and skeletal remains
found in the province's many cliffs and caves, it is thought
that Krabi has been home to homo sapiens since the period
25,000 - 35,000 B.C.In recorded times it was |
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called the 'Ban Thai Samor', and was one of twelve towns
that used, before people were widely literate, the monkey
for their standard. At that time, c. 1200 A.D., Krabi
was tributary to the Kingdom of Ligor, a city on the Kra
Peninsula's east coast better known today as Nakhon Si
Thammarat.At the start of the Rattanakosin period, about
200 years ago, when the capital was finally settled |
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at Bangkok, an elephant kraal was established in Krabi
by order of Chao Phraya Nakorn (Noi), the governor of
Nakhon Si Thammarat, which was by then a part of the Thai
Kingdom. He sent his vizier, the Phra Palad, to oversee
this task, which was to ensure a regular supply of elephants
for the larger town. So followers many emigrated in the
steps of the Phra Palad that soon Krabi had a large community
in three different boroughs : Pakasai, Khlong Pon, and
Pak Lao. In 1872, King Chulalongkorn graciously elevated
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town
status, called Krabi, a word that preserves in its meaning
the monkey symbolism of the old standard. The town's first
governor was Luang Thep Sena, though it continued a while
as a dependency of Nakhon Si Thammarat. This was changed
in 1875, when Krabi was raised to a fourth-level town
in the old system of Thai government. Administrators then
reported directly to the central government in Bangkok,
and Krabi's history as a unique entity separated from
the other provinces, had begun.
During the present reign, the corps of civil servants,
the merchants, and the population generally of Krabi and
nearby provinces have together organized construction
of a royal residence at Laem Hang Nak Cape for presentation
to His Majesty the King. This lies thirty kilometers to
the west of Krabi Town on the Andaman coast.
Population
Krabi's estimated population, as of September 1999,
is 344,610.
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Geography
Krabi's mountainous physical geography is broken by
highlands and plains on the mainland.The provincial
administration also covers more than 130 islands in
the Andaman Sea. Natural forest cover is chiefly mangrove
and Cassia trees. Krabi's sandy clay soil conditions
are perfect for a variety of agricultural products,
including rubber trees, palms, mangos, coconuts, and
coffee.
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The Krabi River flows
5 kilometers through the city and falls into the Andaman
at Tambon Pak Nam. There are other streams as well :
the Khlong Pakasai, the Khlong Krabi Yai and the Khlong
Krabi Noi in the province's highest range of mountains,
the Khao Phanom Bencha.
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Climate
Weather in Krabi is typically that of the tropical monsoon,
providing the province with just two seasons, the hot
season, and the rainy season. Monsoon winds, which change
according to season, blow from the southeast, the southwest,
and the northeast. Temperatures range between 16.9 and
37.3 degrees Celsius and the yearly rainfall averages
2,568.5 millimeters.
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