Valparaíso lifts (urban funiculars)
Ascensores de Valparaíso (funiculares urbanos)
- Date
- 1883 · confidence high
- Place
- Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile
- Credited to
- Valparaíso engineers and local companies
- Field
- Movement
What it is
Single-car funiculars that climb the hillsides of Valparaíso; the Concepción lift (1883) was the first. They overcame the city's slopes and developed the upper districts between 1883 and the early 20th century.
About thirty lifts operated at one time; sixteen historic ones remain today, not all in service. The Concepción was inaugurated in December 1883 according to local tradition.
What it led to
- urban expansion onto the port's hills
- an urban transport heritage recognised by UNESCO (2003)