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Xépôn
Xépôn, also known as Tchepone and Sepon, is a village in the Sepone administrative district of Savannakhet Province in the country of Laos. It was located approximately east of the intersection of the Sepon River and the Banghiang River. It was the target of Operation Lam Son 719 in 1971, an attempt by the armed forces of South Vietnam and the United States to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The village now known as Old Xépôn (Xépôn Kao in Laotian) was destroyed. In the 1990s, gold mining began at the site, helped to create Lao's largest private industry. Expansion of mining in the area has dislocated indigenous peoples' villages around Old Xépôn.〔(Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact. ''Indigenous Women in Southeast Asia: Challenges in Their Access to Justice.'' Chiang Mai, Thailand: March 2013. ) Accessed 2013-12-16.〕
==Geography==
Xépôn was located on the north bank of the Sepon River at an altitude of .〔Collins, p. 373.〕 The countryside was mountainous, broken, and covered in subtropical forest. Average rainfall each year was . In the rainy season (July to September), rainfall could be a month.〔Collins, p. 375.〕
The Sepon River runs in a trough between two natural, high ridges. The trough itself is only wide. This geologic feature begins just west of the town of Khe Sanh in Vietnam. The northern ridge ends near Xépôn, while the southern ridge continues for another . A shallow bowl forms between the ridges (permitting north-south traffic out of the valley) near the Laotian town of Ban Dong. The southern ridge turns southwest (followed by Route 9 on the north side and the Banghiang River on the south side), and ends near the town of Mường Phìn. However, the best break in these ridges occurred at Xépôn, where land traffic could move east, southeast, and southwest.〔Collins, p. 371.〕
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