Located in east central China 400 km southwest of Shanghai in south Anhui Province between 30° 01' to 31☁8'N and 118° 01 to 118☁7'E. Oriental Deciduous Forest (2.15.05) GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION
III Natural Monument BIOGEOGRAPHICAL PROVINCE STATEMENT OF OUTSTANDING UNIVERSAL VALUE IUCN MANAGEMENT CATEGORY Mount Huangshan MIXED NATURAL & CULTURAL WORLD HERITAGE SITEġ990: Inscribed on the World Heritage List under Natural Criteria vii and x and Cultural Criterion ii. Today it continues to be a much visited place of pilgrimage for poets, painters, photographers and litterateurs.
It has been famous in both art and literature for much of Chinese history, and is the locus of the Shanshui (mountain and water) style of painting.
Huangshan is known as the loveliest mountain of China, renowned for its magnificent scenery of granite peaks, rocks and weathered pines emerging from a sea of clouds, for its temples and for the diverse flora, which includes a number of rare and endemic species. Inscription year 1990 Country China MOUNT HUANGSHAN CHINA