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Monte Makaya was a steel, looping roller coaster manufactured by
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and located at
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in
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. When it opened in 1998, Monte Makaya's eight inversions tied the world record previously set by Dragon Khan. It was located in the Terra Africana section near the rear of Terra Encantada in the northwest corner prior to the park's closure. Its location was in the newly relocated Mirabilandia amusement park under construction in
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, Brazil from 2017 to 2024, when the project was canceled. The park put all of their rides on sale, except for Makaya. Makaya’s whereabouts are unknown.


Layout

After ascending the 121-foot
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, the train turned 180 degrees and crested the first drop, which was directly followed by a
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. Coming out of the loop, the train passed over a small airtime hill next to the station and then navigated a
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. The fourth and fifth inversions, two consecutive
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s, followed after the train exited the cobra roll. After another turnaround, the train passed through a triple heartline roll (three consecutive
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s), a downward
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, and a short banked hill, which turned them around one last time before the final
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. Although Monte Makaya had eight inversions, its layout was still short, nearly 1500 feet more so than Dragon Khan, another coaster with eight inversions.


Similar coasters

Monte Makaya has paved the way for similar coasters around the world. Monte Makaya was Intamin's first roller coaster with eight or more inversions; since its opening, Intamin has built two clones of Monte Makaya (in
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) and two ten-inversion coasters which have a similar layout to Monte Makaya. In 2013, the first "Revision B" of their 10 inversion model opened in China, featuring the same basic layout with a different first drop and more modern rolling stock. Four additional "Revision B" models have been built. In 2002, the first clone of Monte Makaya, Avalancha at
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, and the world's first ten-looper,
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, opened. In 2006, exact replicas of Monte Makaya (Flight of the Phoenix at Phoenix Mountain's Happy Park) and Colossus ( Tenth Ring Roller Coaster at
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) opened at parks in China. The ten-inversion coasters differ from Monte Makaya in that they feature two more inversions instead of a helix and a final banked hill. Instead, they pass riders through four consecutive heartline rolls, followed by a banked turn to the left and one more heartline roll, which ends just before the brake run.


References

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External links


Monte Makaya page at Terra Encantada's official website
(in Portuguese) Roller coasters in Brazil