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The East Baray is a baray, or artificial body of water, at Angkor, Cambodia, orientated east-west and located just east of the walled city Angkor Thom. It was built around the year 900 A.D. during the reign of King Yasovarman. Fed by the Siem Reap River flowing down from the Kulen Hills, it was the second-largest baray in the Angkor region, measuring roughly 7,150 by 1,740 meters and holding close to 50 million cubic meters of water. The labor and organization necessary for its construction were staggering: Its dikes contain roughly 8 million cubic meters of fill.