Also, because it is cut off from the rest of Taiwan by mountains that run right down to the coast, the east developed relatively late. Many valuable cultural artifacts have thus been preserved up to the present, and there are many archaeological sites from former cultures that settled here.
又因海岸山脈的阻隔，東海岸開發較晚，許多寶貴的文化資產得以保留迄今，在這裡尚有許多史前文化的人類遺址。