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 291 km round trip from Curitiba - roughly 7 h 07 in the saddle. The stops in between: Serras do Cordeiro, Pico do Marumbi State Park, Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation and Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 46 km this is Estrada da Graciosa, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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Curitiba is the city that other cities come to copy. Sitting on a cool plateau about nine hundred metres above the sea in southern Brazil, the capital of Paraná state became known in the 1970s for a handful of radical ideas: dedicated bus lanes with tube-shaped boarding stations, pedestrian streets, and a network of parks that took care of flood problems along the rivers. The result is a tidy, green and surprisingly calm city of nearly two million people, with a more European feel than most Brazilian places.
Read the complete Curitiba write-up.
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Curitiba is where the day begins. Next is Serras do Cordeiro.
South of Curitiba the Serra do Mar stops being a distant wall and becomes a country of its own, folded into sharp green peaks that rise from the coastal plain of Paraná to well over a thousand metres. The Serras do Cordeiro belong to that mountain tangle, in the zone of protected land and state parks around Pau Oco, near the town of Quatro Barras. Pico Paraná, the highest summit in southern Brazil, and the pyramid of Marumbi are the big names nearby, and the whole range is blanketed by Atlantic forest, a wet, mossy, orchid-hung woodland that catches the clouds coming off the ocean and drips for most of the year.
Read the complete Serras do Cordeiro write-up.
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Serras do Cordeiro comes up about 43 km into the recorded legs. Next is Pico do Marumbi State Park.
There are two ways down from Curitiba to the sea, and both are worth knowing. The modern highway, the BR-277, hurtles down the Serra do Mar in a series of viaducts and tunnels, and the old road, the Estrada da Graciosa, built in the nineteenth century, winds through the same forest on cobblestones, with bends so tight and views so green that bikers talk about it for years. The Serra do Mar is a steep coastal range, covered in Atlantic Forest, with clouds that cling to the peaks, and Pico do Marumbi, at about fifteen hundred metres, is the rocky summit that dominates the skyline.
Read the complete Pico do Marumbi State Park write-up.
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about 89 km into the recorded legs you reach Pico do Marumbi State Park. Next is Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation.
The Serra da Graciosa is the steep green escarpment that separates the high plateau around Curitiba from the coastal plain of Paraná, and the old Graciosa road that runs down it is among the most scenic in southern Brazil. The road was opened in the nineteenth century, linking the interior with the port of Antonina on the Atlantic coast, and for a long time it was the main way for mule trains carrying mate and goods down to the sea. It is about thirty kilometres long, and parts of it are still paved with old stone, which gives it a rattling, slippery character in the wet.
Read the complete Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation write-up.
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Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation, about halfway. Next is Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese.
In 1873, the province of Paraná in southern Brazil opened a road down the Serra do Mar from Curitiba to the coast, and it is still there, paved with stone setts, winding through the Atlantic forest in more than a dozen kilometres of bends. The Serra do Mar here is part of the Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves, listed by UNESCO in 1999, one of the largest remaining stretches of a forest that once covered much of the Brazilian coast.
Read the complete Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese write-up.
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Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese sits at 101 km, about halfway. Next is back through Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation comes up about 183 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Pico do Marumbi State Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pico do Marumbi State Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 203 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Pico do Marumbi State Park. Next is back through Serras do Cordeiro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Serras do Cordeiro write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Serras do Cordeiro, late in the day. Next is Curitiba.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Curitiba write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 291 km.
Curitiba → Serras do Cordeiro is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Serras do Cordeiro → Pico do Marumbi State Park is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pico do Marumbi State Park → Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation → Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese → back through Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation → back through Pico do Marumbi State Park is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pico do Marumbi State Park → back through Serras do Cordeiro is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Serras do Cordeiro → Curitiba is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.