Stone Towers in the rural Tibetan Chinese village Zhong Lu near Danba, Sichuan, China
Built as early as 1700BC, the watchtowers in Shuopo area varies greatly. The height of watchtowers are between 16 and 35 meters, they stand on hillsides or the top of hills with stone slabs for their walls and stone blocks for their foundations. Usually the watchtowers there are designed as polygonal shapes, such as square, pentagon, hexagon, and octagon etc. The best ones have 13 sides and serve as watchtower pearls in Damba area (only 3 13-sided watchtowers left in Gyarong Tibetan area). There are four kinds of watchtowers in Rongzhag according to their different use: Strategic Pass, Beacon-Fire, Village and Dwelling, most of them are well protected.
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Location: Stone Towers in the rural Tibetan Chinese village Zhong Lu near Danba, Sichuan, China
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