Tatev Cable Car
The Wings of Tatev (including Wings of Tatev - Wings of Tatev called) facilitates access to Tatev Monastery in southeastern Armenia .
description
The cable car connects the village of Halidsor, located south of Goris in the province of Sjunik at 1546 m , over two mountain tops and the 2.7 km wide and around 500 m deep Worotan Gorge with the monastery and village of Tatev at 1537 m . At its lowest point, the cable car cabin still hovers 321 m above the gorge. The ride on the 5.75 km long cable car takes about 11 minutes and saves the visitors an originally more than 30 minutes long journey on a 14.5 km long, narrow and winding road through the Worotan Gorge, which is now replaced by a new one Street has been simplified.
With its inclined length of 5750 m, the Tatev cable car is significantly longer than the Sandia Peak Tramway, which opened in Albuquerque , New Mexico , USA in 1999 and which, at 4467 m, was the longest aerial tramway in the world with a continuous cable section . The longest passenger cable car is still the 13 km long Norsjö cable car in Sweden , a gondola lift that emerged in 1989 from Section IV of a former 96 km long material cable car .
The cable car opened on October 16, 2010. It was announced that the residents of Tatev and Halidsor as well as the surrounding villages are allowed to travel for free once a day, while the ticket otherwise costs $ 8 or 6 €. The cable car, with its costs of $ 18 million (≈ € 13 million), is part of a 50 million dollar program that aims to promote tourism in southeastern Armenia and in which private entrepreneurs are significantly involved.
Technical
The aerial tramway was built by Doppelmayr / Garaventa and equipped with two Kronos cabins from CWA for 25 people plus a cabin attendant. The cabins each run on two suspension ropes with a 40 mm diameter and are moved by a circulating pull rope with a 27 mm diameter. The cabins have a maximum speed of 10 m / s (36 km / h), the transport capacity is 120 people per hour. The total of four suspension ropes each have a length of around 6 km, the haul rope is a little more than 11,500 m long. The cable car has three steel lattice supports . The station in Tatev is a comparatively inconspicuous, open concrete and steel structure.
Web links
- 7,000 visitors enjoyed world's longest aerial tramway in Tatev on News.am
- Wings of Tatev: Armenia debuts “world's longest aerial tramway” on Armenia now.com
- On the wings of Tatev over the gorge on Baublatt.ch
- Doppelmayr / Garaventa built the world's longest aerial tramway in Tatev, Armenia on the Doppelmayr / Garaventa website
- Description on funivie.org
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Coordinates: 39 ° 24 ′ 58.9 ″ N , 46 ° 17 ′ 48.5 ″ E