We split our time between Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, and I have so much to share with you. One of our favorite activities was taking the cable car to the top of Sugarloaf Mountain Rio de Janeiro.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Rio de Janeiro: A cable car service which runs to Rio de Janeiro´s Sugarloaf Mountain, one of Brazil´s most famous tourist attractions, was suspended Friday after a nearby shootout that wounded ...

Never mind driving or jumping on the train to get to work - how about riding a cable car, instead? That's exactly what the public can now do thanks to the brand new £45 million six-station ...

The slums of Rio de Janeiro—the infamous favelas—pile onto ... and drug gangs killed dozens last year—perhaps flying cable cars shouldn't be a top priority. Then again, sanitation and ...

One of Rio de Janeiro's largest slums - the Complexo do Alemão - is now home to a 3.5 km long cable car system. It will save residents hours of journey time each day as they avoid steep and ...

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 ...