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Urca, Rio de Janeiro — a peninsula at the mouth of Guanabara Bay · Brazil
Pão de Açúcar (Sugarloaf Mountain)
Pão de Açúcar (Sugarloaf Mountain) is a granite-and-quartz monolith — a classic bornhardt — rising 396 m directly from Rio de Janeiro's harbor, and one of the most photographed peaks in the world. The overwhelming majority of its roughly 2 million annual visitors reach the summit by the historic two-stage Bondinho cable car, opened in 1912 as the first in Brazil and third in the world, rather than by climbing. It is intentionally low-elevation and non-technical for the vast majority of visitors, but its granite faces also host one of the largest urban rock-climbing areas in the world, with 270-plus documented routes of 1–10 pitches.
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