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Chuanba Bridge is a 111 meter high concrete arch with a span of 140 meters that crosses a deep canyon near the Guizhou/Yunnan border at the west end of the Anpan Expressway. | Chuanba Bridge is a 111 meter high concrete arch with a span of 140 meters that crosses a deep canyon near the Guizhou/Yunnan border at the west end of the Anpan Expressway. | ||
| − | The bridge is one of several spectacular crossings on the amazing Anpan Expressway that cuts across an extremely mountainous section of Guizhou Province between Panzhou in Yunnan Province and Anshun in Guizhou Province. The Anpan is also the only expressway in the world to have five bridges that exceed 300 meters in height including Liuchehe, Tianmen, Guniuhe, Wumengshan and Liuzhi Bridges. The Liuchehe and Guniuhe Bridges rank as the two highest arch bridges in the world with road decks over 400 meters high. | + | The bridge is one of several spectacular crossings on the amazing Anpan Expressway that cuts across an extremely mountainous section of Guizhou Province between Panzhou in Yunnan Province and Anshun in Guizhou Province. The Anpan is also the only expressway in the world to have five bridges that exceed 300 meters in height including Liuchehe, Tianmen, Guniuhe, Wumengshan and Liuzhi Bridges. The Liuchehe and Guniuhe Bridges rank as the two highest arch bridges in the world with road decks over 400 meters high. The Tianmen suspension bridge is the third crossing of the Beipan River to exceed 500 meters. |
Revision as of 21:11, 14 November 2023
Chuanba Bridge
川坝大桥
Panjiangzhen, Guizhou, China
364 feet high / 111 meters high
459 foot span / 140 meter span
2025
Chuanba Bridge is a 111 meter high concrete arch with a span of 140 meters that crosses a deep canyon near the Guizhou/Yunnan border at the west end of the Anpan Expressway.
The bridge is one of several spectacular crossings on the amazing Anpan Expressway that cuts across an extremely mountainous section of Guizhou Province between Panzhou in Yunnan Province and Anshun in Guizhou Province. The Anpan is also the only expressway in the world to have five bridges that exceed 300 meters in height including Liuchehe, Tianmen, Guniuhe, Wumengshan and Liuzhi Bridges. The Liuchehe and Guniuhe Bridges rank as the two highest arch bridges in the world with road decks over 400 meters high. The Tianmen suspension bridge is the third crossing of the Beipan River to exceed 500 meters.
Chuanba Bridge satellite image.
Chuanba Bridge location map.
