Sugarloaf Mountain cable car
Teleférico del Pan de Azúcar
- Date
- 1912 · confidence high
- Place
- Urca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Credited to
- Augusto Ferreira Ramos
- Field
- Movement
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
A two-stage cable car (Praia Vermelha–Morro da Urca and Urca–Sugarloaf) opened in 1912-1913 over Guanabara Bay. It is the first passenger cable car in Brazil and among the first in the world in tourist service.
It is often said to be the world's third passenger cable car, but that ranking depends on what counts as an earlier cable car (Wetterhorn, 1908, etc.).
What it led to
- urban high-viewpoint tourism
- a model for tourist cable cars in Latin America