Idkabue

Idkabue is an old name for the country around Attapeu in southern Laos. Local tradition associates the name, said to mean buffalo droppings, with the wild buffalo that once inhabited the area. The land lies east of the Bolaven Plateau in the basin of the Sekong and its tributaries. It became part of the Lao kingdom of Lan Xang and later belonged to the southern kingdom of Champasak.