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The Xiaozhai Tiankeng has been well known to local people since ancient times. Xiaozhai is the name of an abandoned village nearby and literally means "little village", and "Tiankeng" means Heavenly Pit, a unique regional name for sinkholes in China. A 2,800-step staircase has been constructed in order to facilitate tourism. [2]
Dragon Hole – the deepest underwater sinkhole , located in the Drummond Island reef of the Paracel Islands (also known as the Xisha Islands) in the South China Sea. [a] Xiaozhai Tiankeng – the deepest sinkhole in the world (over 650 meters), located in Fenjie County of Chongqing Municipality.
Shaanxi tiankeng cluster, discovered in 2016, it is one of the largest in the world comprising forty-nine sinkholes and more than fifty funnels ranging from 50–100 metres in diameter. South China Karst, World Heritage Site; Stone Forest; Xiaozhai Tiankeng, also known as the Heavenly Pit, is the world's largest sinkhole. [3]
Among these new sinkholes is one (known as Xiaozhai Tiankeng) that is over 500 metres in diameter. [4] Seventeen are 300–500 metres, and 31 are over 100 metres in diameter and equally deep. Prior to this discovery, only 130 such sinkholes were known in the world, 90 of which are in China. [citation needed]
Notable karst phenomena, including the Xiaozhai Tiankeng sinkhole are located within the county. It is the place where Still Life was shot, a film by Jia Zhangke that won the 2006 Venice Film Festival (Golden Lion). [4]
[1] [2] It is located in the Qing River Basin, adjacent to the world's deepest sinkhole Xiaozhai Tiankeng. The total length of the canyon is about 35 kilometers, and almost all kinds of forms of karst landforms can be found, including cliffs, peak pillars, sinkholes , solutional caves , natural arches , subterranean rivers , hanging valleys ...
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But peering into one recently discovered sinkhole in the hilly outlying regions of southern China, one finds a lush forest down below with ancient towering trees. It's a place they call "tiankeng ...