Sugarloaf Cable Car - 85 years - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Commercial Commemorations on Waymarking.com

The glass mosaic compass rose is a reproduction of a figure found in the nautical chart belonging to Sebastiao Lopes, a 16th-century Portuguese cartographer (the original version is in the British Museum in London). The compass rose was inaugurated on 09/30/1997, designed to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the discovery of Brazil and the 85th anniversary of the Sugarloaf cable car. It was a project by Alfredo Britto and Flavio Pappi.

From Wikipedia: "The Sugarloaf cableway opened in 1912, the first in Brazil and the third of this type worldwide. The first cable car cabins were made of coated wood and were used for 61 years.

Sugarloaf Mountain (Portuguese: Pão de Açúcar) is a peak situated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the mouth of Guanabara Bay on a peninsula that juts out into the Atlantic Ocean. Rising 396 m (1,299 ft) above the harbor, the peak is named for its resemblance to the traditional shape of concentrated refined loaf sugar. It is known worldwide for its cableway and panoramic views of the city and beyond.

The mountain is one of several monolithic granite and quartz mountains that rise straight from the water's edge around Rio de Janeiro. Geologically, it is considered part of a family of steep-sided rock outcroppings known as non-inselberg bornhardts.

The mountain is protected by the Sugarloaf Mountain and Urca Hill Natural Monument, created in 2006. This became part of a World Heritage Site declared by UNESCO in 2012.

A glass-walled cable car (bondinho or, more formally, teleférico), capable of holding 65 people, runs along a 1,400 m (4,600 ft) route between the peaks of Sugarloaf and Morro da Urca every 20 minutes. The original cable car line was built in 1912 and rebuilt around 1972–73 and in 2008. The cable car goes from a ground station, at the base of Morro da Babilônia, to Morro da Urca and thence to Sugarloaf's summit."
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Anniversary Year: 1997 Year of Event, Organization or Occurance: 1912 Address: Av. Pasteur, 520 Urca, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil Website: Not listed

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