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A surprising tourist route in the north of Mexico! The Chihuahua-Pacific railway comprises of 656km of tracks that traverse deep canyons, connect Chihuahua with Los Mochis in Sinaloa and constitute one of the best designed means of transportation in the world.

The Chihuahua-Pacific railroad, which is one of the best tourist railroads in Mexico, is the only way to travel across one of the world’s biggest ravine networks.

This train that is popularly known as "CHEPE", travels a total of 656km between the city of Chihuahua, other cities in the same state and Los Mochis in the state of Sinaloa, traversing some of most spectacular areas of the Barrancas del Cobre (the Copper Canyon). Every year more than 260,000 tourists embark this train.

Its construction started in 1872 and was not finished until 1961; thanks to the challenges posed by the mountains, abysses and narrow passes. Currently, the train crosses 37 bridges and goes through 86 tunnels due to which it has gained global recognition as a unique engineering marvel.

The CHEPE is also one of the most comfortable trains in the world and it sports a dining wagon, a bar and passenger wagons.