Pegu Bago MountainsBurmese Bago Yoma, also called Pegu Mountainsmountain range of south-central Myanmar (Burma), extending 270 miles (435 km) north–south north-south between the Irrawaddy and Sittang rivers and ending in a ridge at Yangôn Yangon (Rangoon). The range averages about 2,000 feet (600 mmetres) in elevation, reaching its highest point in the north at Popa Hill (4,984 981 feet [1,519 m518 metres]), an extinct volcano (see photograph). Teak and other tropical hardwoods are extracted in the eastern Pegu Bago Mountains. Ethnic minorities (hill tribespeoples) practice shifting cultivation agriculture in these mountains, growing upland rice, corn (maize), and millet. During the 1960s the Pegu Bago Mountains were a refuge for communist insurgents.