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Geography

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The township is located in the

Huadong Valley The Huadong Valley or Hualien–Taitung Valley (), also known as East Rift Valley, the Longitudinal Valley or as the during the era of Japanese rule, is a long and narrow valley located between the Central Mountain Range and the Coastal Mount ...

Administrative divisions

The township comprises 15 villages: Chunri, Dayu, Dewu, Guanyin, Guowu, Lege, Qimo, Sanmin, Songpu, Taichang, Tungfeng, Yongchang, Yuancheng, Zhangliang, and Zhongcheng.

Tourist attractions

Antong Hot Springs Antong (), alternatively rendered as Hantum (1245 or 1248–1293), of the Mongol Jalair clan, was a prominent official of the Yuan dynasty of China, serving during the reign of Kublai Khan (Emperor Shizu). As a great-grandson of Muqali, one of the ...

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* Teifen Waterfalls * Xietian Temple * Yucyuan Temple *

Yuli Jinja Yuli may refer to: People *Yuli Berkovich a scientist who did experiments with seed germination in zero gravity in the International Space Station *Yuli Burkin, a Russian writer (sci-fi) and musician *Yuli Daniel, a Soviet dissident writer, poet, ...

* Walami Trail *

Yushan National Park Yushan National Park () is one of the nine national parks in Taiwan and was named after the summit Yushan, the highest peak of the park.

Railway

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Taitung line The Taitung Line (), also known as the Hua-Tung line (), is the southern section of the Eastern Line of the Taiwan Railways Administration. The line starts at the Hualien station and ends at the Taitung station. It is 161.5 km long, includ ...

) * Yuli Station * Sanmin Station

Road

* Provincial Highway 9 (Hualien-Taitung Highway) * Provincial Highway 30 (Yuli-Chengbin Highway) * County Road No.193

Bus

* Hualien Bus Company

Notable natives

Evonne Hsieh Sie Yi-lin (; born 19 March 1990), also known as Evonne Sie, is a Taiwanese people, Taiwanese actress. Sie made her acting debut in Chinese film series ''Tiny Times (film series), Tiny Times'' (2013-2015), which helped her achieve popularity in ...

, actress *

Umin Boya Umin Boya (born March 1, 1978), also known as Ma Chih-hsiang (), is a Taiwanese aborigine (half aborigine on his father's side) writer, director and actor, and director of the historical baseball film '' Kano'' (2014). He also starred in Wei Te-sh ...

, writer, director and actor * Wu Maw-kuen,

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(2018)

References

External links

Office of Yu Li Township
(Chinese) Townships in Hualien County {{Taiwan-geo-stub