Cigu District

Cigu District[1][2][3][4][5][6] or Qigu is a rural district of about 23,378 residents in Tainan, Taiwan. It was a salt producing area, but now most of the salt products are imported from other counties.

Cigu

七股區
Rural district
Coastal fish farms in Cigu
七股區公所
CIGU DISTRICT OFFICE
Cigu District in Tainan City
LocationTainan, Taiwan
Government
 • TypeDistrict government
 • District ChiefChuang Ming-hao
Area
 • Total110 km2 (40 sq mi)
Population
 (July 2018)
 • Total22,882
Websiteweb.tainan.gov.tw/cigu
Cigu District
Traditional Chinese七股區

The Cigu Lagoon is located in this township, and an ecological conservation area for black-faced spoonbills is situated on the estuary of the Zengwen River.

History

Around 360 years ago, seven settlers arrived in the area from Fujian and built a fish farm. At that time, the area was mostly inhabited. Gradually, new settlers started to spread northwards over the next 80 years. There was only one port at that time and people made a living based from offshore fishing. As the population gradually increased, they began to cultivate the lands near the coast to grow grains and make salt.

Republic of China

After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in 1945, Cigu was organized as a rural township of Tainan County. On 25 December 2010, Tainan County was merged with Tainan City and Cigu was upgraded to a district of the city.

Administrative divisions

The district consists of Hougang, Datan, Dujia, Dingshan, Xiliao, Yancheng, Longshan, Xinan, Qigu, Yucheng, Dacheng, Shulin, Zhongliao, Zhuqiao, Yige, Yongji, Sangu and Shifen Village.[7]

Tourist attractions
Oyster farms at Cigu Lagoon

Notable natives

See also

References
  1. "District Office". Tainan City Government Global Website. 2016-06-03. Retrieved 22 July 2019. Cigu District Office
  2. "Natural environment". Tainan City Government Cigu District Office. Retrieved 26 July 2019. Cigu District is a coastal region located at the southwestern side of Tainan City, and is located at the westernmost side of Taiwan Island.
  3. "Area of Jurisdiction". Tainan Branch, Administrative Enforcement Agency, Ministry of Justice. 7 March 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2019. The Branch has jurisdiction over Tainan City . There are 37 administrative districts including East District, West Central District, South District, North District, Anping District and Annan District. Sinying District, YongKang District, Yanshuei District, Baihe District, Madou District, Jiali District, Sinhua District, Shanhua District, Syuejia District, Liouying District, Houbi District, Dongshan District, Siaying District, Lioujia District, Guantian District, Danei District, Sigang District, Cigu District, Jiangiyun District, Beimen District, Sinshih District, Anding District, Shanshang District, Yujing District, Nansi District, Nanhua District, Zuojhen District, Rende District, Gueiren District, Guanmiao District and Longci District.
  4. Cigu (Variant - V) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  5. "Cigu fish farmers protest high land cost in Tainan". Central News Agency. 9 July 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2019. Some 80 aquaculture farmers from Tainan's Cigu District held placards that slammed land developers for snatching up land and driving up rents while making available plots of rural land less accessible.
  6. Ts'ui-jung Liu, Andrea Janku, David Pietz (2018). Landscape Change and Resource Utilization in East Asia: Perspectives from Environmental History. Routledge. These were (1) present-day Cigu (七股) and Annan (安南) District located downstream, (2) southwestern Sigang (西港) District, and (3) the border zone between Madou (麻豆) and Shanhua (善化) District.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  7. https://www.cec.gov.tw/pc/en/TV/nm67000001500000000.html
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on February 21, 2014. Retrieved February 8, 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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