Dimuhe River Bridge
From HighestBridges.com
Dimuhe River Bridge
抵母河特大桥
Liupanshui, Guizhou, China
1,247 feet high / 380 meters high
1,765 foot span / 538 meter span
2015
Scheduled for completion in 2015, the Dimuhe suspension bridge will become the second highest highway suspension bridge on earth. With a span of just 1,765 feet (538 meters) between towers, the location is essentially a leap between two nearly vertical cliffs. The bridge is one of several high spans on the southern Guizhou section of the new G56 expressway that will connect Liupanshui with Bijie to the north and Yunnan Province in the south and west.
The bridge crosses the Sancha River about 30 kilometers east of Liupanshui city. The Sancha is a tributary of the great Wujiang River that has more high bridges then any river in the world except for the Beipanjiang. These include the Liuchonghe, Liuguanghe, Jiangjiehe, Wuzuo and Wujiang Bridges.
Although Dimuhe Bridge is officially 380 meters high, the span crosses over a 40 meter deep reservoir making for a deck to lake surface height of 340 meters when the reservoir is full. The central span will be a conventional truss with 4 simple beam span approaches of 148 feet (45 meters).
The above satellite view of the Dimuhe Bridge site shows only the approximate location of the main span.
