Mountain route
Monserrate Funicular
Bogotá → Cerro de Monserrate · Colombia
Monserrate Funicular in pictures
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- Distance
- 0.82 km
- Fastest time
- 5 min
- Average speed
- 10 km/h
- Top speed
- 11 km/h
- Operator
- Teleférico a Monserrate
- Train
- Two counterbalanced trains of up to 80 passengers
- Countries
- Colombia
- In service since
- 1929
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Hauling pilgrims since 1929 up 460 vertical metres to Bogotá’s 3,152 m summit sanctuary — one of the world’s highest funicular rides.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, on it to within a metre
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