The Pegu Range ( my, ပဲခူးရိုးမ; Pegu Yoma or Bago Yoma) is a range of low mountains or hillsSeekins, Donald M. (2006) ''Historical dictionary of Burma (Myanmar)'' Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland
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and uplands between the

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and the Sittaung River in central

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. The range runs from Mount Popa in the north to

Singuttara Hill Siṅguttara Hill ( my, သိင်္ဂုတ္တရကုန်းတော် ; also spelt "Theingottara Hill") is a small hill in Yangon, Myanmar (formerly Burma), crowned by the Shwedagon Pagoda, the most famous pagoda in the country. L ...

(Theingottara Hill) in the south. Both the

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and the Sittaung River originate in the Pegu Range.

High points

Among the notable peaks or hilltops are high Mount Popa, a

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Series U542, United States Army Map Service, October 1959 Kodittaung , Phoe-Oo Taung and Singguttara Hill (Theingottara Hill).

Geology

The Pegu Range consists of folded and faulted

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combined with more recent

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History

The

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was built sometime before 1000 A.D. on Singguttara Hill. The Pegu Range was the original site of the 1930-1931 Saya San uprising against the British. Saya San raised the flag of independence on Alantaung Hill near Tharrawaddy. Later the Pegu Range became a center for the

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Ecology

The northern end of the Pegu merges into the Burmese ''Dry Belt'', while in the south there is over 80 inches of rainfall a year.Stamp, L. Dudley (1930) "Burma: An Undeveloped Monsoon Country" ''Geographical Review'' 20(1): pp.86-109, page 105 The hills of the Pegu Range were originally heavily forested with

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and other commercially exploitable hardwoods. The southern forests were "ironwood forests", while the central and northern forests were teak.de Terra, Hellmut (1944) "Component Geographic Factors of the Natural Regions of Burma" ''Annals of the Association of American Geographers'' 34(2): pp. 67-96, page 82 Extensive logging has caused the present

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and increased erosion in the area.

Notes

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