Peru: “Vaivén Miraflores” – First Tourist Cableway Project Signed for Lima

Representatives of the municipality of Miraflores, one of 43 urban districts in the Lima metropolitan region, signed an agreement for the development and construction of a tourist cableway that will run from Miraflores’ Malecón (dyke) down the cliffs to the Costa Verde coastline. This project, for which the Austrian company Doppelmayr, represented by a subsidiary in Peru, has been commissioned, is the first of its kind in Lima. Two stops are planned: One will be located in the Domodossola urban park, the other at Playa Redondo, which corresponds to a short connecting distance of 310 metres. Two barrier-free accessible cabins with a capacity for up to 15 passengers each will operate within a travel time of three minutes (one way) between the two stops, so that up to 300 people per hour can be transported. The investment volume of approximately ten million US dollars is being financed entirely privately.

“Miraflores is a unique, cosmopolitan place with more than a hundred thousand inhabitants and a fluid population of half a million, with beautiful parks, boardwalks and beaches for everyone to enjoy. With the construction of this great cable car, the municipality of Miraflores is consolidating its leadership in administration and making us a reference city in Latin America,” said Luis Molina Arles, Mayor of the Municipality.

There is great interest in ropeway solutions to create a sustainable and efficient infrastructure in Latin America with its high population density and increasingly growing tourism sector. The company Doppelmayr alone is responsible for numerous tourism and infrastructure projects in countries such as Bolivia and Mexico, and only recently announced the development of the “world’s longest ropeway” with a route length of 6.6 kilometres, which is to provide a fast and comfortable connection to the Boiling Lake National Park in the Caribbean island state of Dominica from 2024. (eap)