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Fangliao Township 枋寮鄉 | |
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.jpeg) Harbor in Fangliao Township | |
 Fangliao Township in Pingtung County | |
| Location | Pingtung County,Taiwan |
| Area | |
• Total | 58 km2 (22 sq mi) |
| Population (February 2024) | |
• Total | 22,717 |
| • Density | 390/km2 (1,000/sq mi) |
| Fangliao Township | |
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| Traditional Chinese | 枋寮鄉 |
| Literal meaning | sandalwood hut township |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Fāngliáo Xiāng |
| Wade–Giles | Fang1-liao23 Hsiang1 |
| Pha̍k-fa-sṳ | Piông-liàu-hiông |
| HokkienPOJ | Pang-liâu-hiong |
Fangliao Township[1] is arural township inPingtung County,Taiwan.
In 1867, the village ofPangliau was located at the shore of a bay. American consulCharles Le Gendre, reporting on his 1867 visit to southern Formosa (seeFormosa Expedition), wrote: "The products are rice and peanuts. Women pound the rice and till the fields, while the men are entirely taken up with fishing." The high mountains to the east were the "exclusive domain of the savage aborigines, who receive from the Chinese (orhalf-caste) population a certain share of their crops".[2]
In 1875, Imperial commissionerShen Baozhen, who had been charged with making arrangements to prevent the Japanese from occupying Chinese districts, began introducing reforms in government. Pangliau was incorporated into Hengchun District, which was created from the portion of Fongshan District south of a river slightly north of Pangliau.[3]
Pangliau, 25 miles (40 km) south of Takow (Kaohsiung), was the site where Japanese forces landed and completed the encirclement ofTainan during the 1895Japanese invasion of Taiwan.
Fangliao has atropical savanna climate, with warm to hot weather year-round, precipitation mainly occur during the wet season from May to September, typical of the rest of the Pingtung Plain.
| Climate data for Fangliao Township | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 24.6 (76.3) | 25.7 (78.3) | 27.6 (81.7) | 29.7 (85.5) | 31.2 (88.2) | 31.7 (89.1) | 32.2 (90.0) | 31.9 (89.4) | 31.3 (88.3) | 30.0 (86.0) | 27.9 (82.2) | 25.3 (77.5) | 29.1 (84.4) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 20.2 (68.4) | 21.0 (69.8) | 23.1 (73.6) | 25.5 (77.9) | 27.4 (81.3) | 28.4 (83.1) | 28.8 (83.8) | 28.5 (83.3) | 27.8 (82.0) | 26.5 (79.7) | 24.2 (75.6) | 21.2 (70.2) | 25.2 (77.4) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 16.8 (62.2) | 17.5 (63.5) | 19.7 (67.5) | 22.6 (72.7) | 24.7 (76.5) | 25.9 (78.6) | 26.3 (79.3) | 26.0 (78.8) | 25.4 (77.7) | 23.9 (75.0) | 21.6 (70.9) | 17.9 (64.2) | 22.4 (72.2) |
| Source: Central Weather Bureau[4] | |||||||||||||
The township comprises 15 villages: Anle, Baosheng, Dazhuang, Deli, Fangliao, Longshan, Neiliao, Renhe, Taiyuan, Tianshi, Tunghai, Xinkai, Xinlong, Yuquan and Zhongliao.
The township is served byFangliao Station andDonghai Station of theTaiwan Railways.
It was also the location for the filming of the second season of the American showWipeout.
Cities and townships ofPingtung County | ||
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| Mountain indigenous townships | ||