(San Javier-La Aurora) (Santo Domingo-Arví) (Oriente-Villa Sierra) (Miraflores-Trece de Noviembre) Metrocable is a gondola lift system implemented by the City Council of Medellín, Colombia, with the purpose of providing a transportation service that complements the Medellín Metro.

In its modern incarnation, it was the result of a joint effort between the city's elected mayor, Luis Pérez Gutiérrez, and the Metro Company.

[2] For some, the initial conception of this system was indirectly inspired by the Caracas Aerial Tramway (also known as the Mount Avila Gondola) which was designed primarily to carry passengers to a luxury hotel in the 1950s.

Line K of the Metrocable connecting the Medellín River valley to the steep hills in Comunas (districts) 1 and 2, was the first system in the world dedicated to public transport, with a fixed service schedule.

Since starting operations in 2004, it carries 30,000 people daily and is operationally integrated into the rest of Medellín's mass transit system (SITVA), which includes the overground Metro, bus rapid transit system (BRT) and a tramway line (opened in 2016).

Many of those hills are home to underdeveloped barrios (asentamientos informales), which due to their location cannot be reached by Medellín's biggest mass transportation system Metro.

Many of these barrios are in fact located in very steep grounds to the extent that not even a regular bus system could be either useful or commercially profitable.

Before the implementation of the Metrocable Line K, residents of the Santo Domingo Savio barrio spent upwards of 21⁄2 hours commuting to work each way.

The haulage cable is pulled by large wheels allowing the cabins to move at an average speed of 10 miles per hour (16 km/h).

It extends west from Acevedo station into districts 5 and 6 (Castilla, Doce de Octubre) arriving at the ecopark "Cerro El Picacho".