Within this perimeter there are twenty rivers which rundown from the highlands eastward to the sea. It truly is a place with mountains, streams, ocean, and rivers. The Huatung area is located right at the juncture of the Eurasian land mass and the Pacific plate. Because of this, geographic shifts have been especially intense.
花東正好位在地殼上歐亞板塊與太平洋板塊的交接處，因此，地形變化非常劇烈。