Sugarloaf Cable Car Sugarloaf Cable Car The Sugarloaf Cable Car () is a cableway in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Moving between Praia Vermelha and the Sugarloaf Mountain, it stops at Morro da Urca (at ) on its way up and down, and reaches the summit of the mountain. The cableway was envisioned by the engineer Augusto Ferreira Ramos in 1908 who sought support from well-known figures of Rio's high society to promote its construction. Opened in 1912, it was only the third cableway to be built in the world. In 1972 the cars were updated, growing from a capacity of 22 to 75,
Sugarloaf Mountain (Massachusetts) that sugar was once molded into for shipment. The names "Sugarloaf Mountain" and "Mount Sugarloaf" are both used to describe this mountain. USGS sources and published hiking maps refer to (North and South) "Sugarloaf Mountain." However, the Massachusetts state reservation encompassing them is called the Mount Sugarloaf State Reservation. The name "Mount Sugarloaf" is sometimes used to describe only the south summit, and the north summit is sometimes described as the Pocumtuck Ridge. Both names are used locally. The original Native American name for the mountain is Wequamps (or Wequomps). The root "wehqu-" in this name or "weckw-" in "Weckwannuck"