Balinghe Bridge
Encyclopedia
The Balinghe Bridge (坝陵河大桥) is a suspension bridge
in Guanling County
in Guizhou
Province of China
. The bridge spans the Baling River Valley and opened to public traffic on December 23, 2009. The bridge carries expressway traffic between Kunming
and Guiyang
and reduced the travel time across the river valley from one hour to four minutes. The suspension span is 1088 m (3,569.6 ft) long, and the bridge has a total length of 2237 m (7,339.2 ft)meters. It is also one of the world's highest bridges with 375 m (1,230.3 ft) clearance above the river.
Suspension bridge
A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. Outside Tibet and Bhutan, where the first examples of this type of bridge were built in the 15th century, this type of bridge dates from the early 19th century...
in Guanling County
Guanling Buyei and Miao Autonomous County
Guanling Buyei and Miao Autonomous County is an autonomous county in Anshun Prefecture, Guizhou Province of China.Area: 1466 km2.Population: 334,900 in 2008.Postal Code: 561300.Telephone Area Code: 0853...
in Guizhou
Guizhou
' is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the southwestern part of the country. Its provincial capital city is Guiyang.- History :...
Province of China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
. The bridge spans the Baling River Valley and opened to public traffic on December 23, 2009. The bridge carries expressway traffic between Kunming
Kunming
' is the capital and largest city of Yunnan Province in Southwest China. It was known as Yunnan-Fou until the 1920s. A prefecture-level city, it is the political, economic, communications and cultural centre of Yunnan, and is the seat of the provincial government...
and Guiyang
Guiyang
Guiyang is the capital of Guizhou province of Southwest China. It is located in the centre of the province, situated on the east of the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau, and on the north bank of the Nanming River, a branch of the Wu River. The city has an elevation of about 1,100 meters...
and reduced the travel time across the river valley from one hour to four minutes. The suspension span is 1088 m (3,569.6 ft) long, and the bridge has a total length of 2237 m (7,339.2 ft)meters. It is also one of the world's highest bridges with 375 m (1,230.3 ft) clearance above the river.
External links
- Balinghe daqiao - Chinese
- Balinghe Bridge on HighestBridges.com