Lloa

Lloa is a name associated with Indigenous communities of the western Taiwanese plains, including settlements in the country around Dǒuliù and Tālǐwù. Their villages lay between the island's coastal lowlands and the mountains to the east. As settlement expanded under Qing rule, some Lloa and neighbouring people moved inland towards the Pǔlǐ basin, where existing Indigenous communities invited them to establish new homes. Their histories belong to a landscape of many separate villages rather than a single town.