Teleférico
Interpretive Sign

"CABLE CAR: The cable car, with its cabins hanging from a cable at 7,000 Mts. connects the city of Caracas to the Ávila peak at 2,159 Mts.  It leaves from Meripérez and the ride up takes 10 minutes.  The first system was built, together with the Humbolt Hotel, during the presidency of Gral. Marcos Pérez Jiménez.  Both represent an important legacy of the city.  The cable car Meripérez-Ávila originally had another station: Galipán-El Cojo, on the other side of the mountain.  Some time later, both systems stopped running.  After a long period of inactivity, in 2001 the company Inversora Turística Caracas, reinaugurates the route Maripérez-Ávila.  The new cable car, designed and manufactured by the firm Doppelmayr, ascends to 2,105 Mts. over a slope with an inclination of approximately 34.85°. It has 84 cars with a capacity for 8 passengers each and carries up to 1,920 persons per hour.  Besides a new ice skating ring, there are restaurants, cafeterias, parks, play rooms, as well as other places for entertainment in this tourist and recreational complex, Ávila Mágica."