Buôn Trấp is a township and capital of Krông-ană Rural District, Đắk Lắk Province, Western Plateau, Vietnam.

The name "Buôn Trấp" in Rhade language means "the sunken village", which indicates the lower and muddy terrain of this area.

During the regime of the Republic of Vietnam, Trấp, along with Êcăm and Rung, are small villages (buôn) located in the outskirts of Ban Mê Thuột town, Darlac province, 2nd Military Zone.

On March 5, 1977, according to the Decision of No. 14/TC from the Provisional Revolutionary People's Committee of Đắc Lắc province on adjusting the boundary and establishing three new communes of Buôn Ma Thuột town. Accordingly, establishing communes Eă Bông, Eă Nă and Quảng Điền. Buôn Trấp belonged to Eă Bông commune.

On September 19, 1981, the Vietnam Council of Ministers issued Decision of No. 75/HĐBT on the boundary of Đắk Lắk districts and Buôn Ma Thuột town, therefore establishing Krông Ană rural district. Buôn Trấp still belonged to Eă Bông commune in Krông Ană district.

On March 6, 1984, according to Decision of No. 35-QD/HDBT of the Vietnam Council of Ministers, separating Eă Bông commune into three new administrative units: Eă Bông commune, Dur Kmăl commune and Buôn Trấp township.

The new town area consisted of three previous merchants until before and after with the doi moi policy, the population came to start a business here, the first was the people in the province like the Mường ethnic people in the Hòa Bình area, Hòa Thắng commune, Buôn Ma Thuột town, came to settle near the river to make wet rice, established Phú Đức village. Huế people from Đạt Lý village (now in Hòa Thuận commune), Buôn Ma Thuột town migrated to the banks of the lotus lake (now Hồ Sen), established Đạt Lý village. People migranted from the North settled first mainly from Thái Bình province, established Quỳnh Tân hamlet. From three cooperatives Quỳnh Tân, Đạt Lý, Thống Nhất to establish three agricultural production groups Ward 7, Phú Đức, Buôn Êcăm, what included immigrants from Thừa Thiên-Huế, Thái Bình and Quảng Nam.

With the terrain so muddy that it is flooded with the back of the rainy season, the intensive farming area of Buôn Trấp has now played an important role in the stabilization of the wet rice of the whole Western Plateau of Vietnam.

Buôn Trấp township initially included 15 villages (buôn) and hamlets (thôn). After that, it was restructured into:

• 8 residential groups (cụm cư dân): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, Buôn Trấp
• 5 hamlets: 1, 2, Quỳnh Tân 1, Quỳnh Tân 2, Quỳnh Tân 3
• 2 villages: Êcăm, Rung

It was the left banking case of Krông-ană ("the mother river"). Its south is Cư-abăo ("the snail mountain"), a mountain range is almost flat.

Over 40 years of development, Buôn Trấp currently has 80% of the population of Kinh people, who belonged to the families of workers who have migrated to the Buôn Trấp Forestry Farm to reclaim since 1981. The remaining small population group is almost Rhade and Raglai.

Buôn Trấp's customs are formed from a large number of immigrants from the North and Central Coastal Delta, so they are diverse and unique. Within 40 years since the establishment of the township, Buôn Trấp has grown from a simple forestry farm to become a leading wet rice growing area in the Western Plateau, which applies the model and technique of the Northwestern Vietnam.

The most famous tourism address in Buôn Trấp township is Lotus Lake Eco-tourism Area (Khu du lịch sinh thái Hồ Sen). It was originally a project of the Lotus Lake Indigenous Cultural Complex, which was exploited by Krông Ana District People's Committee since 1988, but it was not effective. From August 2010, this area has been assigned to Đại Hùng International JSC. to renovate, manage and exploit. On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year every year there is a traditional boat racing festival here, which is imported from the Quảng Nam immigration.

During the pandemic of Covid-19, both the government and people in Buôn Trấp were forced to face the pollution of waste, which has a deep origin from the enhancement of tourism activities.

• Buôn Mê Thuột

• Thị-trấn Buôn-Trấp huy-động nguồn lực xây-dựng đô-thị đạt chuẩn văn-minh
• After the floods, revealing poor quality Buôn Trấp bridge
• People in Buôn Trấp township are discontented because of the fact that the waste is piled for too long
• Many prospects from "Hương-châu 6" Rice Variety
• Build certification brand of "Krông-ană Rice"
• Suffering because... rice is full of copper

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