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The Mérida Cable Car Tourist Transport System or simply Mérida Cable Car is a cable car system that operates in Venezuela. It is the highest and first longest cable car in the world for only 500 meters, but it is in the first place because it is the only one that combines so much height with so many kilometers in length. The Mérida cable car has a 12.5 kilometer journey, reaching a height of 4,765 masl, making it an engineering work that was traditionally one of a kind and with more than 50 years of history. It goes from the city of Mérida to the peak of the Espejo peak within the Sierra Nevada National Park in the Venezuelan Andes, specifically in the state of Merida, Venezuela.
Sections and stations
The Mérida cable car is a system of four (4) cable cars, which gives it a total length of 12.5 km that goes from the Barinitas station in the city of Mérida at about 1640 meters above sea level to 4,765 meters above sea level at the Pico station. Mirror.
Each section has two sides, one for each direction, in each direction there is a car or cabin with a capacity for 60 passengers. The cabin moves at an average speed of 5 m / s thanks to a guaya which is moved by the thrust of an engine. In the Mérida Cable Car there are two engines in each motor station (mountain and round hill), the first serves the mountain section and the Barinitas station and the second motor between the La Montaña station and the La Aguada station. The third and fourth engines are located in the Loma Redonda station and serves the remaining sections, that is, the third goes from La Aguada to Loma Redonda and the fourth goes from Loma Redonda to Pico Espejo.