Ta-pieh Mountains,Wade–Giles romanization Dabie MountainsChinese
(Pinyin) Dabie Shan or (Wade-Giles romanization) Ta-pieh Shan,
Pinyin Dabie Shan, mountain range in central China. It has
Aligned roughly along a roughly northwest-to-southeast axis,
which forms the Dabie Mountains form the watershed between the
upper Huai River and the Yangtze River rivers and also marks
mark the boundary between Hupeh Hubei province to the south and
its eastern and northern neighbours, the provinces of Honan and
AnhweiHenan and Anhui provinces to the north and east. The name
Ta-pieh Dabie Mountains properly belongs only to the higher,
southeastern , higher section of the range bordering Anhweialong
the Anhui-Hubei border, but the term is often used to include
the northwestward extension, to the west of Kuang-shui in
HupehGuangshui (in Hubei), which is properly called the T’ung-
pai Tongbai Mountains. The ranges together are sometimes known
in Western literature the West as the Huai-yang Huaiyang
Mountains.  The average elevatio