Babuza

Babuza communities occupied part of the western Taiwanese coastal plain between the Dàdù and Zhuóshuǐ rivers. Dutch records knew the area as Favorlang, a place of villages whose people spoke a distinct Austronesian language. Their lands lay among a network of neighbouring Indigenous communities across the central plain. In the eighteenth century, as Qing administration and Han settlement expanded, western plains communities faced growing pressure on their land; some later moved inland towards the Pǔlǐ basin.