Yushan National Park is one of the
nine national parks in
Taiwan and was named after the summit
Yushan, the highest peak of the park. The park covers a total of 103,121 hectares including large sections of the
Central Mountain Range. The park contains over thirty peaks more than 3,000 meters in elevation, and two-thirds of the area within the park is above 2,000 meters. The elevation difference in the park is 3,600 meters, and there are many
canyons,
cliffs, and
valleys.