Mi Teleférico Cable Car Network & Contactless Ticketing
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✎ Corrected 27 Aug 2026 Publication date recorded for 5 sources. What changed →
A cable car crosses La Paz's canyon where roads cannot: ten lines over 33 km that had carried more than 640 million riders by 2025, still running on the days blockades stopped everything below.
what does this mean?
The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 2 more in La Paz · 🎫 Smart ticketing guide · 🚲 Mobility projects
Mi Teleférico links La Paz and El Alto across a canyon few roads can cross: 10 colour-coded lines over 33 km, which Xinhua describes as the world's largest urban cable network. It kept running — and added cabins on three lines in May 2026 — while road transport was repeatedly paralysed by blockades and fuel shortages. A USD 62 million IDB package is to extend the Brown Line and put solar panels on most station roofs; the operator says the Brown Line credit is approved, while the report carrying the figure says the package as a whole still awaits approval by the Plurinational Legislative Assembly. Contactless cards and the Yala virtual-card app are gradually replacing paper tickets.
📊 Impact
Mi Teleférico had carried more than 640 million users in a little over 11 years by September 2025, across 10 lines and 33 km. The expansion is not yet an outcome: a USD 62 million IDB package, USD 42 million of it for the Brown Line extension itself plus solar generation at stations, was still awaiting approval by the Plurinational Legislative Assembly when the operator set out the plan in July 2026.
🎓 Lesson
The cable car's value shows up on the days the city stops. It kept running through blockades and fuel shortages that paralysed road transport, because a cable network's fuel is electricity and its right of way is air — which is also why the operator is now trying to move its stations onto solar. Read the financing carefully, though: the same July 2026 report says in its standfirst that the USD 62 million is awaiting legislative approval and quotes the operator saying the Brown Line credit is already approved. An announced loan is not a built line, and this one had not been tendered.
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- Xinhua News Agency · pressXinhua (Spanish service) — La Paz-El Alto urban cable car passes 640 million users in 11 years (2 September 2025)
- Informe Exclusivo · pressInforme Exclusivo — Mi Teleférico refuerza operaciones con más cabinas (press, May 2026)
- eju.tv · presseju.tv — Plan de ampliación: Línea Café, solar, aeropuerto (press, Jul 2026)
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10 colour-coded lines over 33 km, which Xinhua describes as the world's largest urban cable network
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It kept running — and added cabins on three lines in May 2026 — while road transport was repeatedly paralysed by blockades and fuel shortages
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A USD 62 million IDB package is to extend the Brown Line and put solar panels on most station roofs; the operator says the Brown Line credit is approved, while the report carrying the figure says the package as a whole still awaits approval by the Plurinational Legislative Assembly
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Mi Teleférico had carried more than 640 million users in a little over 11 years by September 2025, across 10 lines and 33 km
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a USD 62 million IDB package, USD 42 million of it for the Brown Line extension itself plus solar generation at stations, was still awaiting approval by the Plurinational Legislative Assembly when the operator set out the plan in July 2026
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It kept running through blockades and fuel shortages that paralysed road transport, because a cable network's fuel is electricity and its right of way is air
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Governance facts carried by the record
- Operator
- Mi Teleférico (Empresa Estatal de Transporte por Cable)
- Actor types
- utility
- Funding model
- mixed
- Funding description
- Not recorded
- Cost
- ≈USD 62M IDB package (USD 42M for the Brown Line extension itself, plus station solar), reported in July 2026 as awaiting legislative approval
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5 source dossiers
Mi Teleférico (operator)
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- Name not classified · miteleferico.bo
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2026-08-27
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- 2026-08-27
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The operator's own site: network, lines and fare products. A continuously updated home page with no publication date.
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Inter-American Development Bank (authority)
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src-991c86423adfb395- Publisher
- Name not classified · iadb.org
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2026-08-27
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IDB news release announcing the approved 62 million dollar loan to extend the Brown Line from Las Villas to Pampahasi and to install solar photovoltaic generation at stations Mi Teleférico manages, with a 21.5-year repayment term. The page states no publication date.
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eju.tv — Plan de ampliación: Línea Café, solar, aeropuerto (press, Jul 2026)
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src-21dab96a9ab6f6b6- Publisher
- Name not classified · eju.tv
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2026-07-08
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- 2026-08-27
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- 2026-08-27
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Published 8 July 2026, quoting Mi Teleférico's executive manager Christian Eduardo Rojas. Carries the USD 62 million IDB package, of which 'la ampliación de la línea como tal demandará 42 millones de dólares', solar panels planned on most station roofs, and an airport link served by four electric buses between the 6 de Marzo station and El Alto international airport. Note the tension inside the piece: the standfirst says the USD 62 million is 'a la espera de su aprobación en la Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional', while Rojas says the Brown Line credit itself 'tiene un crédito aprobado en la Asamblea'.
Informe Exclusivo — Mi Teleférico refuerza operaciones con más cabinas (press, May 2026)
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src-cafc8ce014fdc4e7- Publisher
- Name not classified · informeexclusivo.com.bo
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- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2026-05-13
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- 2026-08-27
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Bolivian press, May 2026: normal operations continuing and extra cabins added on the Green, Silver and Blue lines, with a quote from the operator's executive manager.
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Xinhua (Spanish service) — La Paz-El Alto urban cable car passes 640 million users in 11 years (2 September 2025)
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- Name not classified · spanish.news.cn
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2025-09-02
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- 2026-08-27
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Xinhua's Spanish service, dateline La Paz 1 September 2025. The ridership figure and the superlative in one place: the system 'opera con 10 líneas de colores, conecta a las ciudades de La Paz y El Alto mediante 33 kilómetros de extensión, lo que lo convierte en la red de transporte por cable urbano más grande del mundo', has carried more than 640 million users in 11 years, and completed its network with the Silver line in March 2019. Also the fares: preferential rates of 1.50 and 1 boliviano, against operator estimates that privatisation could multiply fares up to eightfold, to 20-25 bolivianos (USD 2.9-3.6).
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Mi Teleférico Cable Car Network & Contactless Ticketing” — La Paz, Bolivia. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/la-paz-teleferico-mesh/ (last verified 2026-08-27). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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