What this site is
lapazteleferico.com is an independent guide to Mi Teleférico, the urban cable car network of La Paz and El Alto. It is not the state company’s website: we do not sell tickets, we cannot top up a Yala card and we cannot resolve anything about your journey.
What we do is put the ten lines, a page for each of the 26 stations, the timetable, the fares, the Yala card and a route planner in one place, in Spanish and in English.
The operator’s own website does not load
This shapes everything else, so it comes first. On 6 September 2026 we checked miteleferico.bo in a real browser: every address on the site — the home page, /tarifas, /pcymt/horarios-y-tarifas — returns the same 2.5 KB shell and stops at “Loading…” indefinitely. No console errors, no failed requests: it simply never mounts.
So there is no operator page we can send you to in order to confirm a price. We say that, rather than link to a page that does not load.
Its data is still there, and that is where this site’s new content comes from
The operator’s site is a JavaScript application, and its catalogue travels inside the program even when the page never draws. In it are the ten lines with their opening hours and the 36 stops, each with its street address, its facilities and the section time to the next station.
We rebuilt the station pages with that. Before, all 26 showed the same list of six facilities — “step-free boarding”, “ticket windows”, “bicycle parking: available at several stations on the network” — which was never verified station by station and was network-level anyway. Now each page carries the facilities Mi Teleférico lists for that station. For the nine stops where the operator lists none, the page says so instead of filling the gap.
It also confirmed the hours we already published: 06:00–23:00 Monday to Saturday and 07:00–21:00 on Sundays and holidays.
The fares have not changed — and that had to be checked too
Bs 3 for the first line and Bs 2 for each transfer; on the concessionary fare, Bs 1.50 and Bs 1. Transfers are not free: the price depends on how many lines you use, not on distance.
These figures have not moved since we built the site in July 2026, and that is itself worth saying: when public transport fares rose in La Paz and El Alto in late 2025 after the change to the fuel subsidy, Mi Teleférico held its prices. Because the operator’s site does not load, the September 2026 check rests on Bolivian press and the company’s own statements, not on a page of theirs we could link.
One thing in the operator’s data we chose not to tidy up
Two of the section times Mi Teleférico publishes are impossible: “7 min 96 s” and “3 min 66 s”. We do not know whether they meant 9.6 seconds or 36, so we neither publish nor correct them: those two pages simply have no section time. The other 24 appear as they are.
Where each fact comes from
Lines, stations, addresses, facilities and hours: Mi Teleférico’s own catalogue, checked on 6 September 2026.
Fares: Bs 3 + Bs 2 (concessionary Bs 1.50 + Bs 1), checked the same day and dated, because the operator’s site cannot be used to re-check them at a glance.
Aymara names, what is near each station and the waiting times by time of day: our own work, and the pages say so. The waiting times are marked as estimates: Mi Teleférico does not publish waiting times, and what you queue for is not the cabin — one leaves every 12 seconds — but the ticket window.
Photographs: from Wikimedia Commons, with the attribution the CC BY-SA licences require on the legal notice page.
When we get it wrong
We fix it and we say what was fixed — this page is the example. An automated watchdog checks every week whether the figures we publish still match the operator’s. If you spot something that does not add up, write to [email protected].
This site is run by the team at GoRandom, a small group based in the Basque Country in Spain who do two things that go together better than they sound: travel, and build websites.
La Paz is not yet one of the cities we have set foot in — we are up to twenty and we move slowly. We would rather say so than pretend otherwise: what you read here does not come from our memories, it comes from what the operator publishes and from checking work we can show you.
The other half of what we know how to do is web development, and this site is the excuse to put the two together. We do not leave it sitting there: every fare and every timetable carries its source and the date we checked it, and they get revised when the operator changes something. The last full review is from September 2026. It found that the operator's own website never loads — every address returns the same 2.5 KB shell — so the station pages were rebuilt from the catalogue that travels inside its application: the address, facilities and section time of each of the 36 stops, instead of the same list of six facilities on all 26 stations.
He decides what goes up, checks the data before it does, and answers the email. If you find a fare that has expired or a timetable that no longer holds, there is a specific person to write to.