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Guanshan, Taitung


Coordinates: 23°01′05″N 121°11′38″E / 23.01806°N 121.19389°E / 23.01806; 121.19389

Guanshan Township (Chinese: 關山鎮; pinyin: Guānshān Zhèn; Wade–Giles: Kuan1-shan1 Chen4) is an urban township in northern Taitung County, Taiwan.

Formerly called Lilong, which is from the Amis word meaning "red worms" and rendered in Hokkien as A-lí-lóng (阿里壟). By 1920, the town was called Kanzan Town under Kanzan District, Taitō Prefecture.

It is located in the Huatung Valley South segment. Beinan River flows through. In the east it is bordered by the Haian Range and in the west by the Central Mountain Range. Guanshan has a Tropical Monsoon Climate. Annual rainfall is 2,000 mm with an average temperature of 23.7 degrees Celsius.


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