Mountain route
Ascensor Concepción
Valparaíso (Calle Prat) → Cerro Concepción · Chile
Ascensor Concepción in pictures
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- Distance
- 0.07 km
- Fastest time
- 1 min
- Average speed
- 4 km/h
- Operator
- Municipality of Valparaíso
- Train
- Two seven-passenger cars at 46 degrees, once water-balance powered
- Countries
- Chile
- In service since
- 1883
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Valparaíso’s oldest ascensor (1883) began on water ballast and still hoists riders 69 m from the Turri clock up to Paseo Gervasoni.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, on it to within a metre
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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