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Houku River
The Houku River (), also known as the Houjue River or Houjue Creek, is a river of southern Taiwan, and a tributary of the Zengwen River. The river drains an area of in parts of Tainan, Chiayi County, and Kaohsiung City. The Nanhua Dam on the river is a major source of drinking water for metropolitan Kaohsiung. See also *List of rivers of Taiwan This is a list of rivers ( or ) on Taiwan Island in the Republic of China which are over : * Dongshan River - Yilan County - *Lanyang River - Yilan County - **Yilan River - Yilan County - ** Qingshui River - Yilan County - ** Luodong Ri ... References Rivers of Taiwan Landforms of Chiayi County Landforms of Kaohsiung Landforms of Tainan {{Taiwan-river-stub ...
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Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. The territories controlled by the ROC consist of 168 islands, with a combined area of . The main island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', has an area of , with mountain ranges dominating the eastern two-thirds and plains in the western third, where its highly urbanised population is concentrated. The capital, Taipei, forms along with New Taipei City and Keelung the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Other major cities include Taoyuan, Taichung, Tainan, and Kaohsiung. With around 23.9 million inhabitants, Taiwan is among the most densely populated countries in the world. Taiwan has been settled for at least 25,000 years. Ancestors of Taiwanese indigenous peoples settled the isla ...
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Zengwen River
The Zengwen River is the fourth longest river in Taiwan after the Zhuoshui River, Gaoping River, Gaoping, and Tamsui River, Tamsui, with a total length of about . It flows through Tainan and Chiayi County.It is located in the southwestern part of the island. Names ''Zéngwén'' is the pinyin romanization of Chinese, romanization of the Standard Mandarin, Mandarin pronunciation of the river's Chinese language, Chinese name The river was formerly known as the from the Hokkien language, Hokkien pronunciation of the same name. It was formerly known as the Taiwanfu from a former name of Tainan, when it was the headquarters of Qing Taiwan, Qing administration on the island as a district of Fujian Province. Reservoir The largest reservoir in Taiwan, Zengwen Reservoir, formed by Zengwen Dam, is located Located upstream of Zengwen River. National Park Taijiang National Park encompasses parts of the Zengwen estuary as well as nearby coastal areas. The endangered black-faced spoon ...
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Yujing District
Yujing District () is a rural district in eastern Tainan, Taiwan. It is famous for its cultivation of mangoes. After a 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit southern Taiwan in March 2010, pillars were severely damaged at Yujing Junior High School forcing school officials to cancel some classes. History Yujing, was formerly known as (or in Dutch records after 1650's; transliterated as ) in Taivoan, is likely the site of tribe of , a former political unit of the Taiwanese aborigines. The name has also been spelled ''Tefurang'', ''Tefurangh'', ''Tevoran'', ''Tevourang'', and ''Devoran''. Tevorang was one of nine villages that joined in warfare against the people of Favorlang (modern-day Huwei, Yunlin). During the Kingdom of Tungning, members of the Siraya people from the Tavocan area (modern-day Xinhua) moved to this area due to conflicts with Han Chinese. The Tapani Incident of 1915 was one of the largest armed uprisings by Taiwanese Han and aboriginals against Japanese rule in Tai ...
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Tainan
Tainan (), officially Tainan City, is a Special municipality (Taiwan), special municipality in southern Taiwan facing the Taiwan Strait on its western coast. Tainan is the oldest city on the island and also commonly known as the "Capital City" for its over 200 years of history as the capital of Taiwan under Koxinga and later Qing rule. Tainan's complex history of comebacks, redefinitions and renewals inspired its popular nickname "the Phoenix City". Tainan is classified as a "Sufficiency" level global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. As Taiwan's oldest urban area, Tainan was initially established by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) as a ruling and trading base called Fort Zeelandia (Taiwan), Fort Zeelandia during Dutch Formosa, the period of Dutch rule on the island. After Dutch colonists were defeated by Koxinga in 1661, Tainan remained as the capital of the Kingdom of Tungning, Tungning Kingdom until 1683 and afterwards the capital of Taiwan Pref ...
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Chiayi County
Chiayi County (Mandarin pinyin: ''jiā yì xiàn''; Hokkien POJ: ''Ka-gī-koān'') is a county in southwestern Taiwan surrounding but not including Chiayi City. It is the sixth largest county in Taiwan. Name The former Chinese placename was Tsu-lo-san (), a representation of the original Formosan-language name ''Tirosen''. A shortened version, Tsulo, was then used to name Tsulo County, which originally covered the underdeveloped northern two-thirds of the island. In 1704, the county seat was moved to Tsulosan, the site of modern-day Chiayi City. Following the 1723 Zhu Yigui rebellion, the county was reduced in size. In 1787, the county and city were renamed ''Chiayi'' (; ) by the Qianlong Emperor to acknowledge the citizens' loyalty during the Lin Shuangwen rebellion. History Qing dynasty Chiayi County was originally part of Zhuluo County during the Qing dynasty. It was given its modern name by the Qianlong Emperor after the Lin Shuangwen rebellion in 1788 for its role in ...
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Kaohsiung City
Kaohsiung City (Mandarin Chinese: ; Wade–Giles: ''Kao¹-hsiung²;'' Pinyin: ''Gāoxióng'') is a special municipality located in southern Taiwan. It ranges from the coastal urban center to the rural Yushan Range with an area of . Kaohsiung City has a population of approximately 2.72 million people as of May 2022 and is Taiwan's third most populous city and largest city in southern Taiwan. Since founding in the 17th century, Kaohsiung has grown from a small trading village into the political and economic centre of southern Taiwan, with key industries such as manufacturing, steel-making, oil refining, freight transport and shipbuilding. It is classified as a "Gamma −" level global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, with some of the most prominent infrastructures in Taiwan. The Port of Kaohsiung is the largest and busiest harbor in Taiwan while Kaohsiung International Airport is the second busiest airport in number of passengers. The city is we ...
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Nanhua Dam
Nanhua Dam (), originally named Houjie Dam (), is a dam across the Houku River, a tributary of the Zengwen River in southern Taiwan. Located at Nanhua District, Tainan, the dam was built to provide municipal water to Tainan and Kaohsiung City and is operated by the Taiwan Water Corporation. Construction work started in December 1988, and impoundment of the reservoir began in July 1993. A conduit to supply water from the reservoir to Kaohsiung was completed in October 1993 and the entire project was operational in March 1994. The curved earthfill dam is high and long, impounding a reservoir with a capacity of and an active or useful capacity of . The reservoir naturally receives water from a catchment of , which is not enough to fill it alone. Most of the water is actually diverted through a tunnel from the Qishan River to the east, adding to the drainage area. The tunnel provides an average of 160.6 million m3 (130,200 acre feet) of water to the reservoir each year. Because o ...
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List Of Rivers Of Taiwan
This is a list of rivers ( or ) on Taiwan Island in the Republic of China which are over : * Dongshan River - Yilan County - *Lanyang River - Yilan County - **Yilan River - Yilan County - ** Qingshui River - Yilan County - ** Luodong River - Yilan County - * Shuang River - New Taipei City - *Tamsui River - New Taipei City, Taoyuan City, Taipei City, Hsinchu County - **Keelung River - New Taipei City, Taipei City, Keelung City - **Xindian River - New Taipei City, Taipei City - ***Jingmei River - New Taipei City, Taipei City - ***Beishi River - New Taipei City, Yilan County - ***Nanshi River - New Taipei City - **Dahan River (Takekan River) - New Taipei City, Taoyuan City, Hsinchu County - ***Sanxia River - New Taipei City - *Nankan River - Taoyuan City - *Fengshan River - Hsinchu County - *Touqian River - Hsinchu County - *Houlong River - Miaoli County - * Da'an River - Miaoli County, Taichung City - *Fanziliao River - Miaoli County *Dajia River - Taichung ...
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Rivers Of Taiwan
This is a list of rivers ( or ) on Taiwan Island in the Republic of China which are over : * Dongshan River - Yilan County - *Lanyang River - Yilan County - **Yilan River - Yilan County - ** Qingshui River - Yilan County - ** Luodong River - Yilan County - * Shuang River - New Taipei City - *Tamsui River - New Taipei City, Taoyuan City, Taipei City, Hsinchu County - **Keelung River - New Taipei City, Taipei City, Keelung City - **Xindian River - New Taipei City, Taipei City - ***Jingmei River - New Taipei City, Taipei City - ***Beishi River - New Taipei City, Yilan County - ***Nanshi River - New Taipei City - **Dahan River (Takekan River) - New Taipei City, Taoyuan City, Hsinchu County - ***Sanxia River - New Taipei City - *Nankan River - Taoyuan City - *Fengshan River - Hsinchu County - *Touqian River - Hsinchu County - *Houlong River - Miaoli County - * Da'an River - Miaoli County, Taichung City - *Fanziliao River - Miaoli County *Dajia River - Taichung ...
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Landforms Of Chiayi County
A landform is a natural or anthropogenic land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography. Landforms include hills, mountains, canyons, and valleys, as well as shoreline features such as bays, peninsulas, and seas, including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes, and the great ocean basins. Physical characteristics Landforms are categorized by characteristic physical attributes such as elevation, slope, orientation, stratification, rock exposure and soil type. Gross physical features or landforms include intuitive elements such as berms, mounds, hills, ridges, cliffs, valleys, rivers, peninsulas, volcanoes, and numerous other structural and size-scaled (e.g. ponds vs. lakes, hills vs. mountains) elements including various kinds of inland and oceanic waterbodies and sub-surface features. Mountains, hills, plateaux, and plains are the fou ...
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Landforms Of Kaohsiung
A landform is a natural or anthropogenic land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography. Landforms include hills, mountains, canyons, and valleys, as well as shoreline features such as bays, peninsulas, and seas, including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes, and the great ocean basins. Physical characteristics Landforms are categorized by characteristic physical attributes such as elevation, slope, orientation, stratification, rock exposure and soil type. Gross physical features or landforms include intuitive elements such as berms, mounds, hills, ridges, cliffs, valleys, rivers, peninsulas, volcanoes, and numerous other structural and size-scaled (e.g. ponds vs. lakes, hills vs. mountains) elements including various kinds of inland and oceanic waterbodies and sub-surface features. Mountains, hills, plateaux, and plains ...
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