Wudang Mountains

UNESCO World Heritage Site

Ancient Building Complex in the Wudang Mountains
Name as inscribed on the World Heritage List
Location	China
Type	Cultural
Criteria	i, ii, vi
Reference	705
UNESCO region	Asia
Coordinates	32°24′03″N 111°00′14″E / 32.400833°N 111.003889°E / 32.400833; 111.003889Coordinates: 32°24′03″N 111°00′14″E / 32.400833°N 111.003889°E / 32.400833; 111.003889
Inscription history
Inscription	1994 (18th Session)
Location of Wudang Mountains in China.

Wudang Mountains
"Wudang Mountains" in Simplified (top) and Traditional (bottom) Chinese
Traditional Chinese	武當山
Simplified Chinese	武当山
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Wǔdāng shān Wade–Giles Wu3-tang1 shan1 Wu Romanization Ghu入 taon平 sae平 Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Móuh-dōng Sāan Jyutping Mou5-dong1 Saan1 Southern Min Hokkien POJ Bú-tong-soaⁿ

The Wudang Mountains (Chinese: 武當山; pinyin: Wǔdāng Shān) consist of a small mountain range in the northwestern part of Hubei, China, just south of Shiyan. They are home to a famous complex of Taoist temples and monasteries associated with the god Xuan Wu. The Wudang Mountains are renowned for the practice of Taichi and Taoism as the Taoist counterpart to the Shaolin Monastery, which is affiliated with Chinese Chán Buddhism.

On Chinese maps, the name "Wudangshan" (Chinese: 武当山) is applied both to the entire mountain range (which runs east-west along the southern edge of the Han River, crossing several county-level divisions of Shiyan), and to the small group of peaks located within Wudangshan subdistrict of Danjiangkou, Shiyan. It is the latter specific area which is known as a Taoist center.

Modern maps show the elevation of the highest of the peaks in the Wudang Shan "proper" as 1612 meters; however, the entire Wudangshan range has somewhat higher elevations elsewhere.

Some consider the Wudang Mountains to be a "branch" of the Daba Mountains range, which is a major mountain system of the western Hubei, Shaanxi, Chongqing and Sichuan.