The tarabitas were a transport instrument mede with braided rope tied two posts localed at the ends of the cliffs or Banks of a river, to which a basket was tied where Passenger or load which was pulled from one extreme to another to make it advance, as hapenned in Estanques (Mérida-Venezuela). Its establishment, technology, operation, administration and itineraries are the subject of this study, based on the information provided by documentary sources, as well as on the descriptions of the travellers who passed through it