CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 558 km round trip from Buenos Aires - roughly 7 h 06 in the saddle. On the way it passes Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape and back through Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape. It crosses from Argentina into Uruguay - carry ID and check the toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Buenos Aires is the capital that looks across a river wide enough to be mistaken for the sea. The Río de la Plata is brown, shallow and enormous, and the city that sits on its western shore has always seemed to face outward, toward Europe. Pedro de Mendoza first tried to found a settlement in 1536 and failed, and Juan de Garay refounded it in 1580. Since then the port has grown into one of the great cities of the southern hemisphere, with about thirteen million people in its wider area, wide avenues designed on a Parisian scale, and cafés that keep a table for you all afternoon.
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Buenos Aires is where the day begins. Next is Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape.
Fray Bentos is a small city on the east bank of the Río Uruguay, and its fame comes from a corned-beef tin. In 1865, a company built a factory here to make Liebig's Extract of Meat, a concentrate of beef boiled down from the enormous herds of the pampas, and the plant grew into a giant that shipped meat products around the world. Later a British-owned company took it over, and the brand Fray Bentos, still sold on supermarket shelves as tinned pies in Britain, was born. The factory closed in the late 1970s, and today the whole complex, with its brick sheds, chimney and workers' houses, is a museum, listed by UNESCO in 2015 as an industrial landscape.
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Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape comes up 111 km in. Next is Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape.
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223 km in you reach Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape. Next is back through Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape.
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back through Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape, late in the day. Next is Buenos Aires.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Buenos Aires write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Buenos Aires. That is the ride.
Buenos Aires → Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape is 223 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape → Buenos Aires is 223 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.