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Wujiang Bridge Tukan
土坎乌江大桥武隆悬索桥
Wulong, Chongqing, China
(295) feet high / (90) meters high
656 foot span / 200 meter span
2009

Wedged between rock walls more then a 1,000 meters high, the Wujiang Bridge Tukan is located across the bottom of one of the deepest and most spectacular canyons of the great Wujiang River. This stretch of the G65 expressway is also loaded with so many tunnels that drivers are lucky to get more then a few seconds to take in the jaw-dropping scenery.

The side by side beam spans cross the river on a skew. Due to the power the river may have during strong floods, the engineers widened the bottom half of the piers to cut the flow of water that might threaten to push the bridge off its foundations.

Wujiang Bridge Tukan is one of 3 similar-sized beam bridges that cross the Wujiang River in the vicinity of Wulong and Penshui cities. At least 2 of these crossings have large main spans of 200 meters.