Here are some facts about Sugarloaf Mountain.
- There are more than 400 hills, peaks and mountains called Sugarloaf, but this page refers to the one in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- It is located next to Guanabara Bay on an Atlantic Ocean peninsula.
- Sugarloaf rises more than 390 metres above the bay.
- It is thought to look like a sugarloaf, a concentrated domed block of refined sugar.
- A cable car system can take more than 60 people at a time from a ground station to the peak as part of a 1.4 km route.
- The cable cars were introduced in 1912.
- The cable cars are bubble shaped and made in Switzerland. They allow passengers to get stunning views of the city.
- Sugarloaf is very popular among rocks climbers.
- The mountain appears in the James Bond film Moonraker.
- Sugarloaf Mountain is formed from one block of granite (it’s a monolith) and supports very little vegetation on its upper slopes.
- It is estimated that more than 35 million people have ridden the Sugarloaf Mountain cable cars since they were opened.
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