Jiangjiehe Bridge is a concrete
arch bridge
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in
Weng'an County
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Weng'an has an area of 1973.8 square kilometers and a population of 460,600 as of 2003.
Gallery
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Guizhou
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,
China
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, spanning 330 metres over the
Wu River. At 256 metres high the Jiangjiehe Bridge was the highest bridge in China from 1995 when it opened until 2001 when the 297-metre-high
Liuguanghe Bridge
Liuguanghe Bridge is a beam bridge at Liu Guangzhen, Guizhou, China. It held the record for world's highest bridge between 2001 and 2003, surpassing the 72-year-old, Royal Gorge Bridge, until the opening of the Beipan River Guanxing Highwa ...
was completed. {{As of, 2019, it is among the forty highest bridges in the world. The bridge is located on the provincial S205 road between
Weng'an and
Honghuagang.
Goupitan Reservoir
The completion of the
Goupitan Dam
The Goupitan Dam () is an arch dam on the Wu River, a tributary of the Yangtze River in Guizhou Province, southwest of China. The dam's hydroelectric facility will operate on five turbines, each with a hydroelectric generating capacity of , fo ...
situated 40 km down the river from the bridge site has created a reservoir which extends under the bridge. The true 256 metre drop to the valley floor can now not be seen due to approximately 100 metres of water below the bridge.
See also
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List of highest bridges in the world
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List of longest arch bridge spans
This list of the longest arch bridge spans ranks the world's arch bridge
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References
*http://wenku.baidu.com/view/e098d384bceb19e8b8f6ba54.html
External links
*http://highestbridges.com/wiki/index.php?title=Jiangjiehe_Bridge
*http://en.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?ID=s0001929
Bridges in Guizhou
Bridges completed in 1995