A Cable Car ride to Sugarloaf Mountain is a must do on your first trip to Rio de Janeiro. This post shares our firsthand experience and everything you will need to know.

Medellín ran a careful consultation process with residents prior to building its cable car to make sure the community would be on board. This wasn’t the case in Rio de Janeiro, residents say.

In the hills of Rio de Janeiro's Complexo do Alemão stands a cable car that once ferried passengers from the favela to the city. It cut a trip that originally took hours down to just 16 minutes.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Tiana Martins stepped gingerly into the red cable-car gondola, giggling from nerves as the doors slid shut, the ground dropped precipitously beneath her feet and she sailed ...

About 40 passengers have escaped unhurt from a broken cable car suspended halfway up Rio de Janeiro's famous Sugar Loaf mountain. The group, most of them foreign tourists from Japan, the US and Canada ...

With cable cars soaring swiftly to the quarter ... It was at the foot of the Sugarloaf that Portuguese explorers founded the city of Rio de Janeiro in 1565. And, just as Rio in its early days ...

One of the most famous attractions in Rio ... de Açúcar completes 110 years today (27). Since its creation, it has received approximately 50 million visitors and is the oldest operating cable ...