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The intake for a historic canal completed in 1928. Fashioned with red brick, it marks the beginning of a 21 kilometer-long diversion of Shangping River (上坪溪) that includes 13 other tunnels along a route snaking through the hills of Hsinchu. It was originally used to irrigate farmland but nowadays also provides a water supply to the downstream science park recently famous for its many semiconductor factories, TSMC among them. Registered as a heritage site in 2019.
Map
Heritage Designation
- Historic Building (歷史建築)
Recorded On
Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Cultural Assets Bureau (文化部文化資產局)
- Liberty Times (自由時報)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Agricultural History in Taiwan (台灣農業史)
Backlinks
- Ruanqiao Power Plant (軟橋發電廠)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.