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Ilha, Formosa ! "beautiful island"
Let's call it Formosa Cliff now
Formosa Cliff,
(清水斷崖 Chingshui Cliff),
one of Taiwan's eight top wonder
vistas, is located near Hualien County's Chingshui Station in Taroko
National Park.
- In 1544 Portuguese explorers were shocked at the
Suao-Hualien characteristic ocean-Island coastline
while sailing to Japan
.
These cliffs
are soaring almost vertical at over 1000 meters from the ocean
long stretched
in 11 kilometers from Chungteh
to Hojen.
Today Taiwan holds the icon to represent other 300 + beautiful places
named with Formosa on the earth. Indeed, the antipodal of the
Cliff through the centre of the earth are coincidentally named
Formosa Plateau, Formosa Province,
& Formosa National Nature Reserve
in Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, and/or
Bolivia.
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