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Completed over 8 years from 1984 to 1992, Juamho Lake holds 707 million tons of water. Besides regulating water supply for the Gwangju and Jeonnam region, it features a 145.5 km lakeside road. The Honam Expressway, together with national routes 15, 18, and 27, connects Songgwangsa Temple and the Dolmen Park, encircling Juamho Lake. Local routes 818 and 857 link the Nagan Eupseong Folk Village with Sangsaho Lake, adding further beauty. Located below the ridges of Jogyesan and Mohusan, it offers rich and leisurely nature, making it an important tourist resource for Suncheon City. Juamho Lake, with a watershed area of 1,010 km² spanning Suncheon, Boseong, and Hwasun, holds 4 million tons of water. Formed by the Juambon Dam built in Daegwang-ri, Juam-myeon, Suncheon-si (57m high, 330m long), it supplies 6,000 tons of daily drinking water to western Jeonnam areas including Gwangju, Naju, Mokpo, and Hwasun. Sangsaho Lake, with a 135 km² watershed covering Seungju-eup and Sangsa-myeon, holds 2 million tons of water. Created by the Sangsa Control Dam in Yonggye-ri, Sangsa-myeon (106m high, 575m long), it provides 3,000 tons of daily drinking water and 2,000 tons of industrial water to eastern Jeonnam areas including Suncheon, Yeosu, and Gwangyang, with an annual generation capacity of 50 million kW.

Manyeon Waterfall is located below the pass leading to Suman-ri on the eastern foothills of Manyeonsan in Hwasun-eup. The waterfall, which drops from a height of 10 meters, has been visited by people suffering from neuralgia who believed it could heal their illness. There is a legend about Manyeon Waterfall. Long ago, Manseok and Yeonsuni were in love, but Manseok had to go to war, and they parted. Yeonsuni waited for Manseok, who never returned. On the day she was to marry another under her parents' pressure, she saw Manseok, disfigured, at that place. Yeonsuni ran out of her bridal chamber and secretly met Manseok, arriving at this waterfall. They fell to their deaths under the waterfall, vowing to continue their unfinished love in the afterlife. Since then, the waterfall has been called Manyeon Waterfall. Nearby tourist attractions include Unjusa Temple, Hwasun Hyanggyo Confucian School, and Hwasun Dolmen Cluster.

Mulyeomjeong Pavilion was built in the mid-16th century by Song Jeong-sun of the Hongju Song clan, who served as the Jeonjeok at Sungkyunkwan and as the county magistrate of Gurye and Punggi during the reigns of King Jungjong and King Myeongjong. It was later inherited by the maternal grandsons, brothers Na Mu-song and Na Mu-chun of the Geumseong Na clan, and was repaired several times, including restorations in 1966 and 1981. [Mulyeom] means 'not to be stained by the secular world.' Located 3 km upstream from Hwasun Jeokbyeok, Mulyeomjeong was a pavilion frequently visited by the wandering poet Kim Satgat, who admired the scenery. Next to the pavilion stands a monument and statue of Nang-o Kim Byung-yeon. The spectacular view from the pavilion includes the rugged cliffs of Mulyeom Jeokbyeok wrapped like folding screens and the pine forest, as well as the deep valley and precipices, creating a superb scene that feels like entering a fairyland where immortals once roamed.

화가로서의 오지호와 국한문 혼용체를 부르짖던 오지호를 생각하는 이들이 많다. 오지호가 태어난 동복에 자리잡은 오지호기념관은 그의 작품을 비롯해 유품 등을 전시하고 있으며 기획전 등으로 지역 문화를 활성화하기 위해 2005년 개관하였다.