The government station in Waka town

Waka Village, the resident of Waka Town Government, has an average elevation of about 2050 meters, which is the lowest elevation village in Derong County.

Waka Village is located in the geographical center of Shangri-La, Meili Snow Mountain and Daocheng Aden, and faces Benzilan Town, an important town on the ancient tea-horse road, across the Jinsha River. It is located on the alluvial platform of Jinsha River Valley, with flat terrain. Historically, it was an important ferry crossing for Yunnan-Tibet ancient tea-horse road to enter Tibet, and it was known as "the first pass of the ancient tea-horse road".

Due to lack of water, Wakaba area has been uninhabited. From 65438 to 0970, farmers gradually moved to the dam area to live. From 65438 to 0984, with the great attention and concern of the higher-level Party committee and government, the relocation of ecological immigrants began, becoming the first demonstration area for the development of ecological immigrants in ethnic areas in Sichuan Province. After 30 years of development, the existing residents 1200 people have become an oasis in the dry-hot valley of Jinsha River. It is an important distribution center for commercial materials in Derong County and has been listed as a county-level sub-center town.

On 20 14, Waka Town was awarded as "Demonstration Village of Leisure Agriculture and Rural Tourism" in Ganzi Prefecture. The Jinshawan Bridge across the river has connected Waka Town and Benzilan Town in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, and the 2 14 national highway is interconnected with the planned 2 15 national highway with convenient transportation. The commerce, accommodation and catering in Waka Village have begun to take shape. There are many beautifully decorated and well-equipped hotels such as Dawang Business Hotel, Innovation Business Hotel and Yuxue Business Hotel, and a large number of Tibetan residential reception households are under construction. There are more than ten Tibetan and Sichuan restaurants in the town, which can provide all kinds of delicious food. Tibetan chicken, Tibetan pig, yak meat, river fish, tree pepper and other local specialties are used to make special dishes such as stewed chicken in clay pot, river fish, Tibetan hot pot and fried beef with tree pepper, which are worth tasting. You can also enter farmers' homes to taste the national flavors such as butter tea, slate pot helmet, tartary buckwheat cake, milk pork and honey butter.