Waka Village, the government residence of Waka Town, is the lowest village in Derong County with an average elevation of about 2151 meters.

Waka Village is located in the geographical center of Shangri-La, Meili Snow Mountain and Daocheng Yading, across the Jinsha River from Benzilan Town, an important town of the ancient tea-horse road, on the alluvial platform of the Jinsha River valley, with a flat terrain. In history, Waka Village is an important ferry crossing of the ancient tea-horse road from Yunnan to Tibet, and is known as the "first crossing of the ancient tea-horse road".

wakaba area has been uninhabited because of lack of water. In the 1971s, farmers gradually moved to the dam area to live. In 1984, 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 of Sichuan Province. After 31 years of development, there are more than 1,211 residents, which has become an oasis in the dry-hot valley of Jinsha River. It is an important distribution center for commerce, trade and materials in Derong County and has been listed as a sub-central town at the county level.

in p>2114, waka town was awarded "demonstration village of leisure agriculture and rural tourism" in Ganzi prefecture. Jinshawan River-crossing Bridge has connected Waka Town in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces with Benzilan Town, and National Highway 214 and the planned National Highway 215 are interconnected, with convenient transportation. The business, accommodation and catering in Waka Village have begun to take shape. There are several beautifully decorated and well-equipped hotels such as Dawang Business Hotel, Innovation Business Hotel and Xueyu Business Hotel, and a large number of Tibetan-style residential reception households are being built. More than ten restaurants with Tibetan flavor and Sichuan flavor in the town can provide all kinds of delicious food. The special dishes such as stewed chicken in clay pot with butter, river fish, Tibetan hot pot and fried beef with tree pepper, which are made from local specialties such as tibetan chicken, Tibetan pig, yak meat, river fish and tree pepper, are worth tasting. You can also enter farmers' homes to taste ethnic flavors such as butter tea, slate pot kui, tartary buckwheat cake, milk pork and honey butter.