CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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A 335 km round trip from Córdoba - roughly 5 h 19 in the saddle. On the way it passes Estancia of Alta Gracia, Estancia of Caroya, Estancia of Jesús María and Estancia of Santa Catalina. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Córdoba is Argentina's second city by size and first by claims to learning, a university town where the baroque churches of the Jesuits stand beside student cafés and traffic that never seems to stop. The Jesuits arrived in the sixteenth century and built what is now called the Jesuit Block, a group of church, college and residences that UNESCO listed in 2000. Their university, founded in 1613, is one of the oldest in South America, and in 1918 students here launched a reform movement that spread through Latin American universities. The city is also where Argentines drink fernet with cola, an acquired taste that locals will defend with some force.
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Cordoba is where the day begins. Next is Estancia of Alta Gracia.
Alta Gracia sits where the Córdoba plains begin to buckle into the Sierras Chicas, and its Jesuit estancia is the reason the town exists. The Jesuits established the estate in the seventeenth century, and by the eighteenth it was a thriving enterprise: a church, a residence around a cloister, workshops, and an ingenious dam with a reservoir feeding irrigation canals. It was part of the great network of Jesuit properties around Córdoba, collectively a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000, which funded the university and college in the city.
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Estancia of Alta Gracia comes up about 38 km into the recorded legs. Next is Estancia of Caroya.
The Jesuits ran their farms like small empires. In the seventeenth century the Society of Jesus built a chain of estancias around the city of Cordoba, in the centre of Argentina, which supported the university and the college in town with grain, cattle, wine and mules, and these, together with the Jesuit Block in Cordoba itself, were inscribed on the World Heritage list in 2000. The Estancia of Caroya, founded in 1616, was the first of them, and its low, thick-walled buildings, with their long arcaded gallery, courtyard and a chapel, look out over a plain bordered by the hills of the Sierras Chicas.
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At least about 136 km into the recorded legs you reach Estancia of Caroya. Next is Estancia of Jesús María.
In the hills north of Cordoba, in Argentina, there is a row of old Jesuit estancias, the ranches that paid for the order's missions and schools in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The one at Jesus Maria dates from 1618, and with the Jesuit Block in Cordoba city and four other estancias, it forms part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2000. The Jesuits ran these properties as farms, workshops and vineyards, with indigenous and African labour, and they prospered until King Carlos III expelled the order from Spanish territory in 1767.
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Estancia of Jesús María, about halfway. Next is Estancia of Santa Catalina.
The Jesuits were more than priests. In seventeenth-century Córdoba, in the heart of what is now Argentina, they ran a university, a network of missions and a string of estancias, ranches whose profits paid for their schools. Santa Catalina, founded in 1622 in the foothills of the Sierras Chicas, was the biggest of them, and the buildings you see today are a handsome cluster of church, cloister, workshops and quarters set around a quiet courtyard. The church, with a baroque front of whitewashed stone and a bell tower, was completed in the mid-eighteenth century, shortly before the Spanish crown expelled the order from its colonies in 1767.
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Estancia of Santa Catalina sits at 184 km, about halfway. Next is back through Estancia of Jesús María.
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back through Estancia of Jesús María comes up about 190 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Estancia of Caroya.
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about 194 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Estancia of Caroya. Next is back through Estancia of Alta Gracia.
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back through Estancia of Alta Gracia, late in the day. Next is Cordoba.
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The route ends here after 335 km.
Cordoba → Estancia of Alta Gracia is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Estancia of Alta Gracia → Estancia of Caroya is 98 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Estancia of Caroya → Estancia of Jesús María is 4 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Estancia of Jesús María → Estancia of Santa Catalina is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Estancia of Santa Catalina → back through Estancia of Jesús María is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Estancia of Jesús María → back through Estancia of Caroya is 4 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Estancia of Caroya → back through Estancia of Alta Gracia is 97 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Estancia of Alta Gracia → Cordoba is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.