Hualien County is approximately 4628 sq. km. Four hundred years ago, the Portuguese sailors went past the East Coast of Taiwan, fascinated by its beauty, and called it “FORMOSA.” It was called“chi-lai” in the ancient period. Owing to the Hualien River empties into the Pacific Ocean on the East Coast , where the surge and wave is turbulent, it is also called “huei-lan,” similar sound with Hualien.