A village name that remembers a vanished harbor.
Gangwei Elementary School's exact founding date has not been confirmed in available records. The school is located in Gangwei ("harbor's tail") Village on Madou's northwest edge — a village name that itself preserves the memory of a small fishing settlement once located at the tail end of a historic harbor inlet. Gangwei serves what was historically a coastal fishing hamlet, sitting at the geographic center of the former "five villages" (五庄) cluster in this part of Madou.
港尾國小確切創校年份於現有資料中尚未證實。學校位於麻豆區西北側的港尾里——「港尾」（港口末端）這個地名本身，正保留了昔日一處位於歷史港灣末端的漁村聚落記憶。港尾國小服務的區域曾是沿海漁村，地處麻豆這一帶昔日「五庄」聚落群的地理中心。
What makes this school worth knowing.
⚓ A Name That Remembers a Harbor
地名見證港灣記憶
"Gangwei" ("harbor's tail") preserves the memory of a fishing settlement once located at the tail end of a historic harbor inlet.
🎣 Roots in a Fishing Hamlet
源自漁村聚落
The school serves an area that was historically a coastal fishing hamlet, before the surrounding waterway silted into farmland over the centuries.
🗺️ At the Center of the "Five Villages"
五庄聚落核心
Gangwei sits at the geographic center of the former "five villages" (五庄) cluster in this part of Madou.
🏫 Serving Madou's Northwest Edge
服務麻豆西北隅
The school anchors education for the district's northwestern corner, part of Madou's patchwork of small village schools.
A linguistic fossil of the inland sea.
Gangwei Village's name ("tail of the harbor") is a direct linguistic fossil of the Daofeng Inland Sea (倒風內海) that once reached this far inland before silting up over the centuries — the same vanished waterway whose story is told at Madou's Daofeng Inland Sea Story House (倒風內海故事館). See the Tainan county page for more on the region.
Find the school.
No. 799, Lin 5, Sec. 2, Maxue Rd., Gangwei Village, Madou District, Tainan City 721010, Taiwan
721010臺南市麻豆區港尾里5鄰麻學路2段799號
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