page_title: Valparaíso funiculars
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Valparaíso funiculars / Description
caption_attribution_description: View in Valparaiso, showing the Lecheros w:funicular railways, called "ascensores" in Chile.
context_page_description: There are 16 extant historical elevators in the city of Valparaíso in Chile.
  Technically most of these elevators are bona fide funiculars. Only one of them, the Ascensor Polanco, is a true vertical elevator. They were mainly constructed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
context_section_description: Valparaíso in Chile, due to the number of hills above the so-called plan has had up to 30 ascensores. 
  Only 16 of them remained extant today and they are declared National Monuments of Chile. As of 2018 only 7 of elevators are in operation, the other 9 are under a process of restoration and modernisation.
  These extant ascensores are a part of the Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaíso site which since 2003 is included into the UNESCO's World Heritage List.
  Below is a list of known elevators (funiculars and the lift) in Valparaiso.
caption: The Lecheros funicular in 1941
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