Cableway to Choquequirao

The cableway to Choquequirao is a project that seeks to create a new access road to the Inca city of Choquequirao. The cableway will cross the Apurimac River at 1400 m above sea level, with a total distance of 5.4 kilometers that will be covered in approximately 15 minutes Which will connect two departments along the Apurimac Canyon, from the town of Kiuñalla located the district of Huanipaca , province of Abancay (Apurimac) to the town of Yanama, district of Santa Teresa, Province of the Convention (Cusco).

This project will be a major focus of development in the departments of Cusco and Apurímac because Choquequirao with this access road will not be a tourist attraction away to become a tourist product that can offer our visitors a new option to visit in addition to Machu Picchu.

Project description:

The Project consists of the construction of a cableway access road from Kiuñalla to the Archaeological Park of Choquequirao, as well as the construction of the departure and arrival stations. The Project focuses on providing adequate accessibility conditions for the population and visitors in the high slope area of ​​the right bank of the Apurimac River, where they move in both directions, that is, while a cabin goes to shock or another cabin returns, It will be 15 minutes from one end to the other, with a capacity of 400 people per hour, plus it will have three stations distributed along the Apurimac Canyon.

According to PROINVERSION, which is the body in charge of the promotion of investment and privatizations, this project will cost S / 123 million, this price does not include taxes, and the company that makes this investment will have a concession period of 22 years. This figure is preliminary and may suffer some type of variation in the future.

Cableway to Choquequirao Section 1:

This section starts at the Kiuñalla station (2,975 meters above sea level). In the town center of the same name, Huanipaca district, up to the Pajonal station (2,476 meters above sea level) located in the Yanama district of Cusco, this section has an extension of 3.5 kilometers, a maximum height of 806 meters on the Apurimac river.

Cableway to Choquequirao Section 2:

This second section starts at the Pajonal station (2,476 meters above sea level) located in the district of Yanama to the Choquequirao station (3,271 meters above sea level), this section has an extension of 1.9 kilometers, from this place the access to the Inca city of Choquequirao will be in minutes.