It is the location of Taiwan's oldest Catholic church, and historical conflicts which forced residents to marry mainly within the village have also made it the place where the largest numbers of descendants of the Makato people--a subtribe of the Siraya--can be found.
那裡有台灣最古老的天主教堂，又由於在歷史上，它的外患不斷，所以以村內通婚為多，也因此可能是保留西拉雅的亞族之一﹘ ﹘馬卡道族族裔最多的地方。