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The Central Mountain Range is the principal mountain range on the island of Taiwan. It runs from the north of the island to the south. Due to this separation, connecting between the west and east is not very convenient. The tallest peak of the range is Xiuguluan Mountain, 3,860 m (12,664 ft).
Of these 165 mountains, 116 (70%) are located in the Central Mountain Range, 41 (25%) in the Xueshan Range and 8 (5%) in the Yushan Range. Both the Alishan Range and the Hai'an Range (With Data Mountain and Xingang Mountain as the highest mountains respectively) don't feature peaks exceeding 3,000 m above sea level, therefore they are not listed.
The Hai'an Range in the east coast of Taiwan. The collision of the Philippine Sea Plate and Eurasian plate can be observed on land between Central Mountain Range and Hai’an Rang. Philippine Plate moves in northwest direction with a speed of 8.2 cm/year. Under accumulating increasing force, rocks break and displace in the structure of fault. [4]
Taiwan has one of the highest densities of tall mountains in the world. [citation needed] To promote mountain hiking, the Taiwan Alpine Association began developing a list of top 100 peaks for Taiwan. Wen-An Lin, after a 1971 crossing of the Central Mountain Range, set about drawing up the list. Significant contributions in sourcing photos and ...
Central Range Point (Chinese: 中央尖山; pinyin: Zhōngyāng Jiānshān) is a mountain in Taiwan with an elevation of 3,703 m (12,149 ft) [1]. It looks like a triangular pyramid from the north and south sides, being the south side very steep and difficult to climb. The normal climbing route comes from Nanhu Mountain.
Yushan National Park (Chinese: 玉山國家公園; pinyin: Yù Shān Gúojiā Gōngyuán) is one of the nine national parks in Taiwan and was named after the summit Yushan, the highest peak of the park. [1] The park covers a total area of 103,121 hectares that includes large sections of the Central Mountain Range. [2]
Two more bodies were found in the mountains of Taiwan’s eastern Hualien county, two days after a 7.4-magnitude quake off the nearby coast that was the island’s biggest tremor in 25 years.
The Taixinan Basin (台西南盆地) is located between Taiwan Banks and the Central Mountains. The Okinawa Trough , the back-arc basin behind the Ryukyu Islands , shows up on the coastline as a bay between Dome Point north to Sanshokiaku (easternmost point of Taiwan) (24.6° to 25°N).