Lat Krabang ( th, ลาดกระบัง, ) is one of the eastern
districts of Bangkok.
Geography & history
Lat Krabang (literally translating to "slope of shield") is a second largest district of Bangkok (the first one is neighbouring district
Nong Chok).
Neighbouring districts are (from the south clockwise):
Bang Bo,
Bang Sao Thong and
Bang Phli (
Samut Prakan province);
Prawet
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,
Saphan Sung,
Min Buri and Nong Chok (Bangkok) and
Mueang Chachoengsao (
Chachoengsao province
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History
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).
Two-thirds of the district is farmland. Another part is the industrial park and residential area. Therefore, it is filled with ditches and canals,
Khlong Prawet Burirom is a main waterway. The identity of the district is that local culture and the way of life are based on canal culture, even now it is still local way of life since there is no road access in certain areas. Some people use boats and walkways along canal's bank.
At present, Lat Krabang is still considered one of the areas of Bangkok that still has
rice cultivation
The history of rice cultivation is an interdisciplinary subject that studies archaeological and documentary evidence to explain how rice was first domesticated and cultivated by humans, the spread of cultivation to different regions of the planet, ...
as well as nearby districts were Min Buri and Nong Chok. In the past, some people traded rice by boat, they manually used big baskets for loading rice to their boats and unloaded it at the rice mill. They had workers and can only plant rice once a year. The harvest season is late November or December, it took a long time to manually harvest. There was no machinery back then. After harvesting, farmers had to carry them back so it would take six, seven or ten days of hard work. They worked so hard with some help from their buffaloes. Lat Krabang's rice fields consist of a wide of rice varieties.
The rowboat is an important local vehicle before 1992. Before that, anytime when someone died, those boats would be used to carry a coffin to the temple. It is also used as an important vehicle for other important religious ceremonies, such as ordaining monks.
In October 2005, the plan to create the special administrative area
Nakhon Suvarnabhumi around
Suvarnabhumi Airport became public. Lat Krabang was among the five districts that were to be included in this new administrative area.
Administration
The district is divided into six sub-districts (''khwaengs'').
Places
*
King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Lat Krabang
*
Protpittayapayat School
* Lat Krabang Industrial Estate
*
Hua Takhe
References
External links
District office
{{Khet Bangkok
Districts of Bangkok