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Originally Posted by itom 987
Chongquing is a city built on top of small mountains within a valley of converging rivers. Roads criss-cross over top of each other everywhere. There are very few cities around the world that are comparable to Chongqing outside of China.
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Yep Chongqing is a tortured site topographically, but one handy for the river trade, where two major rivers bisect.
The striations are mountain ranges
For scale - the deck heights of the bridges are about 200-250ft:
Although the aerials hide the height of the land. For example this bridge is 436ft high
While on land you get mindfvcks such as this, a truly 3D vertical city:
https://i.imgur.com/QAiSvQa.gifv
"Zhongliang Mountains (中梁山) and Tongluo Mountains (铜锣山) roughly forms the eastern and western boundaries of Chongqing's urban area. The highest point in downtown is the top of Eling Hill, which is a smaller syncline hill that keeps Yangtze River and Jialing River apart for some more kilometres. The elevation of Eling Hill is 379 metres (1,243 feet). The lowest point is Chaotian Gate, where the two rivers merge with each other. The altitude there is 160 metres (520 feet). The average height of the area is 259 metres (850 feet). However, there are several high mountains outside central Chongqing, such as the Wugong Ling Mountain, with the altitude of 1,709.4 metres (5,608 feet), in Jiangjin. "