For many years, cement manufacturers quarried large quantities of limestone from this area, which offers scenery that is very different from that found in the Chiayi-Tainan Plain.
由台南前進高雄，到岡山景緻已不同於嘉南平原。一路大崗山、小崗山、半屏山、壽山，一列衛兵站崗般的小山丘，為高屏地區創造了台灣最集中的水泥工業區。