San Pa Tong (, ) is a district (amphoe) of Chiang Mai province in northern Thailand. It contains the remains of Wiang Tha Kan, a walled town of the Haripunchai period, and an Old Mon inscription has been recovered at Wiang Mano.
Geography Neighboring districts are (from the southwest clockwise) Doi Lo, Mae Wang, Hang Dong of Chiang Mai province, Mueang Lamphun and Pa Sang of Lamphun province.
History The remains of an ancient walled town of the Haripunchai Kingdom, Wiang Tha Kan, founded approximately 1,000 years ago, lie in the southern part of this district, in tambon Ban Klang. Surveys found antiquities in the Lopburi style there, and Sujit Wongthes compared the name with the Wiang Takan of the Mūlasāsanā. A line of ruins runs west from the town towards the Ping, which he read as a route to the river, in keeping with the chronicle's account of Chamadevi travelling up the Ping. Another site in the district, Wiang Mano, has produced an Old Mon inscription, Jm.45. Christian Bauer listed it among five from Chiang Mai province that are absent from H. L. Shorto's dictionary of the Mon inscriptions and that antedate those from the Lamphun sites.
The district was originally named Ban Mae and was renamed San Pa Tong in 1939.
Administration The district is divided into 11 sub-districts (tambons), which are further subdivided into 122 villages (mubans). There are three sub-district municipalities (thesaban tambons). San Pa Tong covers parts of tambons Yu Wa, Makham Luang, and Thung Tom, and Ban Klang covers parts of Ban Klang, Tha Wang Phrao, Makham Luang, and Ma Khun Wan. The area of Thung Tom sub-district not covered by San Pa Tong municipality also forms a sub-district municipality. There are a further 10 tambon administrative organizations (TAO), covering the non-municipal areas of each sub-district. No. Name Thai Villages Pop.1.Yu Waยุหว่า1513,3612.San Klangสันกลาง94,6483.Tha Wang Phraoท่าวังพร้าว73,4804.Makham Luangมะขามหลวง116,5395.Mae Kaแม่ก๊า147,3736.Ban Maeบ้านแม136,6357.Ban Klangบ้านกลาง119,8358.Thung Satokทุ่งสะโตก126,39810.Thung Tomทุ่งต้อม117,25814.Nam Bo Luangน้ำบ่อหลวง114,84515.Makhun Wanมะขุนหวาน85,228 Missing numbers are tambons which now form Mae Wang district.
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External links amphoe.com