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Ticlio
Ticlio (or Anticona) is a mountain pass and the highest point of the central road of Peru (km 120), in the Andean mountains, reaching 4,818 m, and formerly was a railway crossing loop on the Ferrocarril Central Andino (FCCA) in Peru whose main claim to fame is that it was the highest railway ''junction'' in the world. The railway currently crosses the pass through a nearby tunnel at a lower elevation (4783 m) which enters a different valley than the highway on the eastern side of the pass.
==Overview==
It lies at km 171 just on the Pacific side of the Andes watershed. The standard gauge line through the Ticlio station (located abut 2 km from the highway summit at the western end of the railway tunnel) was opened in 1893 and from 1921 it was the junction for the now-closed branch to Morococha. The railway is a busy freight line but there are now no regular passenger services on the FCCA. On the railway approach to Ticlio from the direction of Lima eight tunnels were necessary in a stretch of less than .
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