Cable car · Yungay, Peru
Teleférico Huascarán, Yungay, 3,701–3,831 m
Teleférico Huascarán is a cable car near Yungay, Peru. It climbs 130 m over 898 m, from 3,701 m to 3,831 m above sea level. Between its 3 pylons, the cable runs up to about 31 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
8/100 · Gentle
By the numbers, Teleférico Huascarán is scarier than 8% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 6 of 7 in Peru.
- Highest above the ground: about 31 m, as high as a 10-storey building, 294 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 372 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 9°.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Teleférico Huascarán is near Yungay, Peru, at 3,701 m above sea level (9.08450° S, 77.65655° W). From there it runs 898 m up to the top station at 3,831 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Capacity
- 1,000 people per hour
- Per cabin
- 15 people
- Ride time
- about 15 min
Nearby lines
- Teleférico Huascarán, Yungay, 3,698–4,794 m cable car · 1.1 km away · rises 1,096 m
- Teleférico Huascarán, Ranrahirca, 4,003–4,781 m cable car · 3.8 km away · rises 778 m
- Teleférico Huascarán, Ranrahirca, 4,017–4,631 m cable car · 6.0 km away · rises 614 m
- Teleférico Huascarán, Ranrahirca, 3,140–4,006 m cable car · 7.1 km away · rises 866 m
- Gondola near Caras, 3,275–4,861 m gondola · 8.8 km away · rises 1,586 m
- Gondola near Caras, 3,263–4,765 m gondola · 10.6 km away · rises 1,503 m
Pylon heights are estimated (30 m), so the height above ground is approximate. Terrain: Copernicus GLO-30, 30 m. Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. Data as of 2026-10-31.