Sugarloaf Mountain is a peak situated in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, at the mouth of Guanabara Bay on a peninsula that sticks out into the
Atlantic Ocean. Rising 396 metres (1,299 ft) above the harbor, its name is said
to refer to its resemblance to the traditional shape of concentrated refined
loaf sugar.
The mountain is only one of several monolithic granite and
quartz hills that rise straight from the water's edge around Rio de Janeiro. A
glass-walled cable car (in popular Portuguese, bondinho - more properly called
teleférico), capable of holding 65 passengers, runs along a 1400-metre route
between the peaks of Pão de Açúcar and Morro da Urca every 20 minutes. The
original cable car line was built in 1912 and rebuilt around 1972/1973 and in
2008. The cable car leaves a ground station located at the base of the
Babilônia hill, to the Urca hill and then to the Pão de Açúcar.
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