Wulai

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Wulai District

Etymology

From Mandarin 烏來 (Wūlái).

Proper noun

Wulai

1. A district of New Taipei, northern Taiwan.
   • 1962, Pacific Insects‎, volume 4, Entomology Department, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 623:

     Larva has been found breeding in rock holes on stream beds at Neishuangchi, A2; in rock holes near the water-fall at Wulai, E32; and in rock holes on stream bed at Nuannuan, B7.

   • 2005, Birdwatching in Taiwan‎, Taipei: Wild Bird Society of Taipei, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 66‎:

     Fushan Village is almost due south of Wulai along a tributary of the Nanshih River. It is surrounded by mountains of a spur of the Syueshan Mountain Range.

   • 2014 December 3, Adam H. Graham, “Taiwan, an Island of Green in Asia”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-12-04, Travel‎:

     Wulai, a mountain township and a protected water reservation area 25 minutes from Taipei by taxi, is known for its mountainous hot springs, river-tracing excursions, a combination of hiking, climbing and swimming up the turquoise Nanshih River, and the 8,000-year-old aboriginal Atayal community whose lifestyle is being touted as a more carbon-efficient model. Taiya Popo, a restaurant on Wulai’s main drag, serves traditional Atayal cuisine, much of it vegetable-based like pumpkin dumplings, rice-stuffed bamboo and stir-fried fern.

   • 2023 June 4, Duncan DeAeth, “One missing after rafting accident in New Taipei's Wulai”, in Taiwan News‎, archived from the original on 2023-06-06, Society‎:

     A whitewater rafting excursion turned tragic when a rafter was thrown from his boat and swept downriver in New Taipei’s Wulai District on Sunday (June 4).

Translations

district

Chinese: Mandarin: 烏來／乌来 (zh) (Wūlái) Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Wulai at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.