Rueda Eiffel, Ferris wheel in Parque Sarmiento, Córdoba, Argentina

The Rueda Eiffel is a wrought-iron Ferris wheel 27 metres in diameter with 20 cabins, each holding six passengers, set in Córdoba's Parque de la Biodiversidad. Its white rim and spokes carry small white lights, and rectangular cabins with white frames and dark glass hang around the edge. A white base and structural legs support it, with trees and the city skyline behind.

The wheel was built in 1916 for Argentina's independence centennial and originally stood in another city. Two years later it was moved to Córdoba, where it has remained ever since.

The name recalls the claim, repeated since the wheel's early years, that it was prefabricated in Gustave Eiffel's workshops; a plaque once attached to the frame was said to certify this, though no proof survives. The wheel now turns again at the Parque de la Biodiversidad, where its white-lit rim and dark-glass cabins are visible after dark.

The wheel stands in the Parque de la Biodiversidad, the former Superpark area of Sarmiento Park in Nueva Córdoba. It turned again in 2023 after restoration, so it can be ridden rather than only viewed. Look for the two original legs kept during the 2001–2003 rebuilding.

The attribution to Gustave Eiffel's workshops rests on a plaque once fixed to the frame, recalled by the architect Carlos Page; no proof of it survives. The Chilean architect Monserrat Palmer found no record of large wheels being made in those workshops. The wheel's spokes were originally crossed like bicycle spokes, but in Córdoba they were reassembled concentrically, which deformed them.