Zengwen River


The Zengwen River is a river in Taiwan. It flows through Tainan and Chiayi County for 138 km.

Names

Zéngwén is the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of the river's Chinese name The river was formerly known as the from the Hokkien pronunciation of the same name.
It was formerly known as the Taiwanfu from a former name of Tainan, when it was the headquarters of Qing administration on the island as a district of Fujian Province.

Reservoir

The largest reservoir in Taiwan, Zengwen Reservoir, formed by Zengwen Dam, is located Located upstream of Zengwen River.

National Park

encompasses parts of the Zengwen estuary as well as nearby coastal areas. The endangered black-faced spoonbills come every winter as migrants and inhabit downstream near the estuary, where many other waterfowls are also found. A conservation area has been set up to protect the spoonbills.

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