Taroko National Park

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"Taroko" can also refer to the Truku aboriginal tribe.

Image:Taroko national park Taiwan 1.jpg Taroko National Park (Template:Zh-tp; Taiwanese POJ: Thài-ló·-koh kok-ka kong-hn̂g) is one of the six national parks of the Republic of China (Taiwan). It spans cross the counties of Hualien, Taichung, and Nantou. It was established on November 28, 1986, named after Taroko Gorge, the landmark gorge of the park.

Sights include:

Eternal Spring Shrine (長春祠 Changchun)(pic below)
Swallow's Mouth (燕子口)
Jinheng Park (靳珩公園)
Tunnel of Nine Turns (九曲洞 Jiuqiu Dong)
The Bridge of the Kind Mother (慈母橋)
Tianxiang (天祥)
Jueilu Precipice (錐麓斷崖)
Lioufang Bridge (流芳橋): 1,666 meters above the riverbed
Hill of Yu the Great (大禹嶺)
Buluo Bay (布洛灣)

1 Origin of the Name
2 Geology
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

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Origin of the Name

The name, Taroko, means the "magnificent and splendid". Long ago a tribeman of the aboriginal tribe Truku saw the beauty of the azure Pacific when he walked out of the gorge. Astonished by the elegance of the scene, he cried: "Taroko!". And so it became the name of the place, in fashion not dissimilar to how the island, Formosa, got its name.

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Geology

Image:Tailuge -taroko-.jpg Taroko Gorge and its surrounding area are well known for their abundant supply of marble, leading to its nickname, "The Marble Gorge". The rock now seen in Taroko began over 200 million years ago as sediment on the bottom of the ocean. As the sediment collected, it was subject to increasingly large amounts of pressure which eventually hardened it into limestone. Over the past 100 million years, compression between the Philippine and Eurasian techtonic plates supplied additional pressure that metamorphosed the limestone into marble. Uplifting forces from the plate collision pushed this rock above the surface of the ocean to where we see it today. In fact, the region is still being uplifted by approximately 0.5cm per yearTemplate:Ref.

The gorge itself was carved into the marble by the erosive power of the Liwu River. Light reflected by the dissolved calcium carbonate gives the water in the gorge its striking blue color.

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References

Template:Note {{cite web |title=Landform and Geology |work=Taroko National Park Official Website |url=http://www.taroko.gov.tw/ENGLISH/landform.htm |accessdate=2006-04-03 }}

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