Pranburi (other)
Pranburi ( th, ปราณบุรี) may refer to: * Pran Buri District and town, Prachuap Khiri Khan Province, Thailand *Pranburi River, which flows through the district *Pranburi Forest Park, at the mouth of the Pranburi river See also *''Pranburia ''Pranburia'' is a monotypic genus of Southeast Asian ant mimicking corinnid sac spiders containing the single species, ''Pranburia mahannopi''. Christa L. Deeleman-Reinhold described the first male in 1993, and the first female in 2001. It ha ...

Pranburi River
The Pran Buri River (, , ) is a river in Prachuap Khiri Khan Province, Thailand, on the Kra Isthmus of the Malay Peninsula. The Pran Buri River originates in southern part of the Kaeng Krachan National Park in the Tenasserim Hills and after empties into the Gulf of Thailand. The only town along the river course is Pran Buri, the center of the Pran Buri District. The watershed of the Pran Buri River has an area of about . The Pran Buri dam was built in 1978, to protect lowlands from flooding as well as to have steady water flow for irrigation. The high and wide earthen dam creates an artificial lake, which covers and has a capacity of . At the river's estuary at the Gulf of Thailand is Pran Buri Forest Park, covering of mixed forest and mangrove A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water. The term is also used for tropical coastal vegetation consisting of such species. Mangroves are taxonomically diverse, as a result of convergent e ...
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Pranburi Forest Park
The Pran Buri Forest Park ( th, วนอุทยานปราณบุรี) is a protected area in Thailand. It is at the mouth of the Pran Buri River to the Gulf of Thailand in Pran Buri District, Prachuap Khiri Khan Province. Pran Buri Forest Park was founded either in 1974 or on 30 September 1982 by the Forestry Department after Queen Sirikit visited Pak Nam Pran Buri Village in Pran Buri and was inspired to support the growing of more trees along the coastline. This project developed 1,984 rai of Khlong Kao and Khlong Doi forests, consisting of mangrove forest Mangrove forests, also called mangrove swamps, mangrove thickets or mangals, are productive wetlands that occur in coastal intertidal zones. Mangrove forests grow mainly at tropical and subtropical latitudes because mangroves cannot withstand fr ...s, mixed deciduous forests, and coastal plains. The park protects the mangrove forest of the Khlong Kao-Khlong Kop National Reserve Forest. It covers . Referen ...
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