Sugarloaf Mountain (Brazil)

Views of the Sugar Loaf and the Morro da Urca

The Sugarloaf, Portuguese Pão de Açúcar ( sugar bread '), is a 395 m high, steilwandiger incurred by shell-like desquamation of the coarse gneiss in the hot and humid climate Glockenberg, on the peninsula at the western entrance to the Urca Baia de Guanabara.

He is next to the Corcovado with its Christ the Redeemer as the symbol of Rio de Janeiro. It takes its name because its shape is reminiscent of a sugar loaf.

Was first conquered the hitherto regarded as unclimbable Sugarloaf in 1817 by an English nanny Henrietta Carstairs.

On the Sugar Loaf cable car leads (O Bondinho called ) whose sides are fully glazed. On October 27, 1912, the first section of the Morro da Urca has been completed; a year later was followed by the second section leading to the summit of Sugar Loaf.

In 1972, the steep side of the Sugar Loaf was first climbed by a German - Austrian roped.

North of the Sugar Loaf, the Guanabara Bay is the immediately adjacent neighborhood Botafogo and Flamengo the government district. South and west are the beaches of Praia Vermelha, Copacabana and Leme, which can all be seen from the summit of Sugarloaf. The further west in the beaches of Ipanema, Leblon and Barra da Tijuca are not visible from the Sugar Loaf.

Geology

The Sugarloaf consists of gneiss -like granites that rose before about 560 million years ago during the Pan-African orogeny as plutons in the crust. The already created by the emergence, domed shape of the rock was reinforced by desquamation further by dissolved outer layers of the rock as onion skin from the rest of the mountain.

The rocks of the Sugarloaf show clear relationship to rock deposits from the western Congo, Kaoko, Damara, Gariep and Saldania that lie on the other side of the Atlantic. Before the opening of the Atlantic today they are separated by the ocean geological units were adjacent.

Sugarloaf veiled from the side, partially by clouds

Considered the Sugarloaf cable car from the intermediate station

Botafogo Bay with the Sugar Loaf (right)

Rio seen with the Sugar Loaf, Corcovado from the

Sugarloaf seen from Corcovado

View from Sugar Loaf (towards Copacabana / Ipanema )