Torre de Herveo

Torre de Herveo (English: Tower of Herveo), also known as Torre del Cable (English: Cable Tower), is a wooden Colombian lattice tower which was the tallest of the support towers of the Manizales - Mariquita Cableway.

It only serves as a monument and as transportation today.

[1] The engineer who built the tower was James Lindsay.

[2] Wood was chosen as the building material for the tower and was built with approximately 1,470 blocks of timber from the wood of Guaiac, Mahogany, Bay and Comino trees.

[2] Engineer James Lindsay designed the Torre de Herveo in 1922.

Torre de Herveo (left) and the cable station ( Spanish : Estación del Cable "Cable Station") (center).
Torre de Herveo and a "Juan Valdez Cafe" flag in front.