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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473 km from Córdoba to Córdoba, about 8 h 50 of riding. On the way it passes Estancia of Santa Catalina, Estancia of La Candelaría and back through Estancia of Santa Catalina. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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 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 comes up about 74 km into the recorded legs. Next is Estancia of La Candelaría.
The Jesuit estancias of Córdoba were farms, mills and chapels that supported the Jesuit college in the city, and La Candelaria is the one that feels most remote. It lies in the dry hills of northern Córdoba province, at the end of a long, quiet approach, with the nearest villages, such as San Carlos, many kilometres away. The ranch house, chapel and workshops stand in a landscape of scrub, rock and grassland, where goats and cattle graze and the silence is complete.
Read the complete Estancia of La Candelaría write-up.
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about 270 km into the recorded legs you reach Estancia of La Candelaría. Next is back through Estancia of Santa Catalina.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Estancia of Santa Catalina write-up.
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back through Estancia of Santa Catalina, late in the day. Next is Cordoba.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cordoba write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cordoba. That is the ride.
Cordoba → Estancia of Santa Catalina is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Estancia of Santa Catalina → Estancia of La Candelaría is 196 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Estancia of La Candelaría → back through Estancia of Santa Catalina is 130 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Estancia of Santa Catalina → Cordoba is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.