Alishan, Chiayi
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Alishan is a rural township in Chiayi County
, Taiwan
. It has a population total of 6,180 and an area of 427.8471 square kilometres. It is located at an elevation of 2190 metres (7,185 ft) in the western highlands of Taiwan.
. Chu Shan, though lower, is more accessible and climbed by most visitors to the region, which is extremely popular with Taiwanese tourists. The highland region in which Alishan is situated also contains a number of notable rock formations from the continuing uplift of the island.
Cwb) with extremely wet and mild conditions during the monsoon
season when the town receives 3.2 metres (126 in) of rain in five months, and cool and drier conditions during the winter months. When typhoons hit Taiwan during the wet season, rainfall in highland locations like Alishan can exceed 1 metres (39.4 in) per day, which is the heaviest rainfall in the Northern Hemisphere and exceeded only in a few oceanic islands of the Southern Hemisphere such as Réunion
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Chiayi County
Chiayi County is a county in southwestern Taiwan surrounding but not including Chiayi City. Its historical name in Taiwanese Hokkien derives from Tsirosen in the Formosan languages...
, Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
. It has a population total of 6,180 and an area of 427.8471 square kilometres. It is located at an elevation of 2190 metres (7,185 ft) in the western highlands of Taiwan.
Attractions
Alishan is the main base for trekkers in the highlands of Taiwan and for mountain climbers aiming to scale Yu Shan, Taiwan’s highest peak and the highest and sole formerly glaciated point on the Tropic of CancerTropic of Cancer
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. Chu Shan, though lower, is more accessible and climbed by most visitors to the region, which is extremely popular with Taiwanese tourists. The highland region in which Alishan is situated also contains a number of notable rock formations from the continuing uplift of the island.
Climate
Alishan has a subtropical highland climate (KöppenKöppen climate classification
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Cwb) with extremely wet and mild conditions during the monsoon
Monsoon
Monsoon is traditionally defined as a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation, but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with the asymmetric heating of land and sea...
season when the town receives 3.2 metres (126 in) of rain in five months, and cool and drier conditions during the winter months. When typhoons hit Taiwan during the wet season, rainfall in highland locations like Alishan can exceed 1 metres (39.4 in) per day, which is the heaviest rainfall in the Northern Hemisphere and exceeded only in a few oceanic islands of the Southern Hemisphere such as Réunion
Réunion
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