Bagua Plateau

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The "Pakua Buddha" in the Pakua Plateau.

Pakua Plateau or Bagua Plateau (Chinese: 八卦台地), also known as the Pakua Mountain Range (八卦山脈), is located at the central-western Taiwan. It is stretching across the Changhua County and Nantou County. The plateau faces the Changhua Plain on the west and Taichung Basin on the east. It is long and narrow, has a length of about 32 km, and a width of about 4 to 7 km. The highest peak of the plateau is the Mt. Hengshan (橫山), which has a height of 442.6 m.

v t e Topography of Taiwan

Mountain ranges	Alishan Range Central Mountain Range (Chungyang Range) Hai′an Range (Coastal Range) Hsuehshan (Xueshan) Range Yushan Range

Plateaus and hill lands	Hsinchu (Xinzhu) Hills Linkou Plateau Miaoli Hills Pakua (Bagua) Plateau Taoyuan Plateau Dadu Plateau

Plains	Changhua (Zhanghua) Plain Chianan (Jianan) Plain Huatung (Huadong) Valley Pingtung (Pingdong) Plain Yilan Plain

Basins	Puli Basins Taichung Basin Taipei Basin Taiyuan Basin

Volcano groups	Chilung (Jilong) Volcanoes Tatun Volcanoes

* The place names listed above are mainly romanized as Wade–Giles that used in most of academic articles.

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Bagua Plateau

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