Living in a backward area in and around Wutai township in the Central Mountain Range about 939 meters above sea level, the natives used to have difficulties in communicating with the outside world, since it took about five hours walk one way.
其中最小族叫「魯凱族」，住在海拔九三九公尺的中央山脈裡，是屏東縣霧台鄉最偏遠、生活最落後的村落，對外交通全屬鑿山穿岩的羊腸小道。