Dadu District () is a suburban

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...

in southwestern

Taichung Taichung (, Wade–Giles: ''Tʻai²-chung¹'', pinyin: ''Táizhōng''), officially Taichung City, is a special municipality located in central Taiwan. Taichung has approximately 2.8 million residents and is the second most populous city of Taiw ...

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 nort ...

. The eponymous

Dadu River The Dadu River (), known in Tibetan as the Gyelmo Ngul Chu, is a major river located primarily in Sichuan province, southwestern China. The Dadu flows from the eastern Tibetan Plateau into the Sichuan Basin where it joins with the Min River, a t ...

flows nearby.

History

The Yingpu Culture was a Late

Neolithic The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several parts ...

culture in mid-Taiwan. Dadu was the historical capital of the

Kingdom of Middag The Kingdom of Middag (), also known as the Kingdom of Dadu (), was a supra-tribal alliance located in the central-western plains of Taiwan in the 17th century. This polity was established by the Taiwanese indigenous peoples of Papora, Babuza, ...

which was established by the Taiwanese indigenous tribes of Papora, Babuza, Pazeh, and

Hoanya The Hoanya () are a Taiwanese Aboriginal people who live primarily in Changhua County, Chiayi City, Nantou County, and near Tainan City. Their language, Hoanya, is now extinct. The Lloa people and Arikun people are generally considered to be a p ...

Huangxi Academy The Huangxi Academy () is a former academy in Dadu District, Taichung, Taiwan. History The building was originally built in 1888 as an extended building to the existing Wenchang Temple. The building was closed during the Japanese rule of Taiwan ...

was built in 1887 and was the predecessor of Dadu Elementary School.

Administrative divisions

Dadu District consists of 17

villages A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

.http://vote2014.nat.gov.tw/en/TV/nm400000800000000.html * Chenggong Village * Dadu Village * Dadong Village * Dingjie Village * Fushan Village * Huangsi Village * Jhebu Village * Jhonghe Village * Rueijing Village * Shanyang Village * Shejiao Village * Sinsing Village * Wangtian Village * Yingpu Village * Yonghe Village * Yongshun Village * Zihciang Village

Tourist attractions

Transportation

* TRA Dadu station * TRA Zhuifen station

References

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