Sugarloaf Mountain, Brazil

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Sugarloaf Mountain (in Portuguese, Pão de Açúcar) is a peak situated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from the mouth of Guanabara Bay on a peninsula that juts out into the Atlantic Ocean. Rising 396 meters (1,300 ft) above sea-level, its name is said to refer to its resemblance to the molds used to set sugarcane. This may, however, be a folk-etymology, since it is believed that the name actually derives from Pau-nh-acuqua (“high hill”) in the Tupi-Guarani language, as used by the indigenous Tamoios.

The mountain is only one of half a dozen monolithic morros of granite and quartz that rise straight from the water’s edge around Rio de Janeiro. A glass-paneled cablecar (in Portuguese, bondinho), capable of holding 75 passengers, runs along a 1400-meter route between the peaks of Babilônia and Urca every half hour. The original cablecar line was built in 1912.