Xueshan
Sign in to saveAlso known as Snow Mountain, Xue Mountain, Syue Mountain, Xinglong Mountain, Xue Main Peak, Syue Mtain Peak, Mt. Xue, Mt. Sylvia
Xueshan or Sekuwan (in Atayal, formerly known as among others) is a mountain in the Heping District of Taichung, Taiwan. It is the 2nd-highest mountain in Taiwan, at above sea level. It is located in the Shei-Pa National Park and is visible in good weather from hills near Taiwan's capital Taipei.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- 雪山
- Mountain.other_name
- Snow Mountain
- Mountain.photo
- HsuehMountain.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- The summit as seen from the east peak
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 3886
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 1932
- Mountain.listing
- Ultra, Ribu100 Peaks of Taiwan
- Mountain.map
- Taiwan
- Mountain.map_relief
- 1
- Mountain.map_caption
- The location of Xueshan(Shei-Pa National Park)
- Mountain.map_size
- 250
- Mountain.location
- Heping District, Taichung/Tai'an, Miaoli County, Taiwan
- Mountain.range
- Xueshan Range
- Mountain.easiest_route
- Maintained trail, snow/ice climb during some winter months
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- Elevation
- 3886
- Image
- HsuehMountain.jpg
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- Xueshan (mountain)
- topographic prominence
- 1932
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Xueshan or Sekuwan (in Atayal, formerly known as among others) is a mountain in the Heping District of Taichung, Taiwan. It is the 2nd-highest mountain in Taiwan, at above sea level. It is located in the Shei-Pa National Park and is visible in good weather from hills near Taiwan's capital Taipei.
==Names== Xuěshān is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese name meaning "Snowy Mountain", it is romanized as Hsüehshan using the previous Wade-Giles system. Japanese historian Taira Shidehara suggests that is short from , transliteration of Atayal Sekoan or Sekuwan which means "cracking into gravel".
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