Guanyin (Taoyuan)
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Guanyin 觀音 區 |
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 Location within Taoyuan City |
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 Republic of China (Taiwan)
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| Coordinates : | 25 ° 2 ' N , 121 ° 6' E | ||
| Area : | 87.9807 km² | ||
| Residents : | 65,246 (July 2016) | ||
| Population density : | 742 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Time zone : | UTC + 8 (Chungyuan time) | ||
| Postal code : | 328 | ||
| ISO 3166-2 : | TW-TAO | ||
| Community type : | Municipality of Taoyuan | ||
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Guanyin ( Chinese 觀音 區 , Pinyin Guānyīn Qū , Hakka Gon-im-sṳ , Pe̍h-ōe-jī Koan-im-khu ) is a district in the north of the government-direct city of Taoyuan in Taiwan .
Location and history
Guanyin is on the northern edge of Taoyuan City. It is on the Taiwan Strait coast , with neighboring districts being Dayuan and Zhongli to the east and Xinwu to the west. The area of today's district has been settled by Chinese immigrants, especially the Hakka ethnic group, since the beginning of the 19th century . According to a legend, in 1858 a farmer found a stone image of the Buddhist saint Guanyin in a brook , which soon became an object of devout worship and around which the Fulongshan Temple (today's name: Ganquan Temple) was built around 1860. The adjoining village was named Shi Guanyin ( Stone Guanyin ) based on this incident . Since a territorial reform during the Japanese rule in 1920, the place is only called Guanyin .
meaning
Guanyin, until 2014 an independent municipality in Taoyuan County , is characterized by agriculture and is one of the less densely populated districts of the metropolis of Taoyuan. The Tatan power plant (also: Dah-Tarn ), Taiwan's largest conventional power plant and one of the five largest gas-fired power plants in the world (as of 2014) is located in Guanyin . On August 15, 2017, an interruption in the gas supply to the power plant caused by an operator error led to a power failure in large parts of the entire island of Taiwan for about 3 hours, affecting 6.7 million households.
More recently there have been efforts to make the district more popular for tourism. Attractions for visitors include the Ganquan Temple, founded in 1860, the Baishajia lighthouse from 1901, built during the Japanese colonial era, and a small seaside resort with a beach on the coast.
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Guanyin statue
The Baishajia lighthouse
The Tatan gas power plant
Individual evidence
- ^ Buddhist Temples in Taiwan , accessed August 17, 2016
- ↑ Power Technology website , accessed on August 17, 2016
- ^ Lisa Wang: Gas issues cause nationwide blackout. Taipei Times, August 16, 2017, accessed September 15, 2017 .
