floating village
Houses on water
A floating village is a community of houses built on water, typically on rafts, pontoons, or stilts over lakes, rivers, or coastal areas.
Found throughout Southeast Asia and elsewhere, these settlements may house fishing communities or people adapting to seasonal floods: We toured the floating villages on Tonle Sap Lake.
Some remain anchored in place; others drift with water levels.
- stilt housesHomes built on posts
- wooden walkwaysElevated timber foot paths
- waterwayNavigable route for vessels
- canoeSlender paddled vessel
- lakeEnclosed body of freshwater
river · river delta · fishermen · fish traps · fresh catch · bamboo · palm leaves · houseboats · boat people · Cambodia · Venice · stilts · marsh · wetland · water hyacinth · sampan · fishing nets · wooden planks
- coastal townscoastal town, seaside town, beach town, coastal city, harbor town
- River Townsriver town, river port, riverside town, river crossing, ferry crossing
- communitiesgated community, family, retirement community, neighbors, cohousing
- remote settlementsoutpost, wilderness outpost, trading post, frontier town, colony
- water settlementscrannog, lakeside town
- outpostsoutposts, outpost, frontier post, forward base, forward bases
foundation/anchoring
floating villageconcrete foundation
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