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 160 km round trip from Lima - roughly 3 h 53 in the saddle. It goes by way of Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac, Segment Molle - Huarangal, Segment Santa Rosa de Chontay - Molle and back through Segment Molle - Huarangal. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 32 km this is Peru Coastal Panamericana South, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Lima sits on the edge of one of the driest deserts on earth, and yet it is a city of more than seven million people, held together by a grey sky that locals call la garúa, a damp, low cloud that hangs over the coast for much of the year and rarely produces rain. The city's coastline rises in cliffs above the Pacific, where the districts of Miraflores and Barranco look out to the surf, and parks, cafes and paragliders occupy the clifftops.
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Lima is where the day begins. Next is Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac.
Lima is one of the driest capitals on earth, and yet just south of it, in the hills above the Lurín valley, the desert turns green for a few months every year. The Lomas de Quebrada Verde are fog oases, where the winter mist called garúa, rolling in from the cold Pacific between roughly June and October, condenses on the hillsides and brings to life a brief explosion of grass, flowers, cacti and shrubs, attracting birds, butterflies and the people of Lima, who come here to walk. The segment between Quebrada Verde and Pachacamac is part of the Qhapaq Ñan, the Inca road system, which linked the coast with the highlands.
Read the complete Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Molle - Huarangal.
If a place could be known by its tree, Huarangal would be known by the huarango. This slow-growing, deep-rooted tree of the Peruvian coast, a kind of mesquite, once covered the dry valleys and fed the ancient people with its sweet pods, and the old Inca road passed through it. Much of the forest has been cut for charcoal and farmland, but a few trees survive, and the name of the place keeps the memory. The segment between Molle and Huarangal is a stretch of the Qhapaq Nan, the Inca road network that was listed as a World Heritage site in 2014, in the dry foothills of the Andes east of Lima, where the Rimac valley opens out and the desert meets the mountains.
Read the complete Segment Molle - Huarangal write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
At least about 63 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Molle - Huarangal.
The names tell a story about the land. Molle is the Peruvian pepper tree, with its weeping branches and pink berries, and a huarangal is a grove of huarango, the tough, deep-rooted desert tree that once covered much of the Peruvian coast. Between these two places, in the lower hills east of Lima toward the Lurín valley, runs a short stretch of the Qhapaq Ñan, the Inca road network. Here the road descended from the highlands toward the sanctuary of Pachacamac on the coast, one of the most important religious centres of the ancient Andes, where an oracle drew pilgrims from far and wide. The segment is part of the UNESCO listing of the Andean Road System.
Read the complete Segment Molle - Huarangal write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Molle - Huarangal, about halfway. Next is Segment Santa Rosa de Chontay - Molle.
East of Lima, the land climbs fast. The Rímac valley begins at the coast as a green ribbon through the desert and rises toward the Andes, and Santa Rosa de Chontay and Molle lie in the foothills above Chosica, a town of nearly ninety thousand about ten kilometres off. Here the coastal fog that blankets Lima for much of the year gives way to sun, which is why Chosica earned the nickname of the city of the sun and why wealthy Lima families kept weekend houses here.
Read the complete Segment Santa Rosa de Chontay - Molle write-up.
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Segment Santa Rosa de Chontay - Molle sits at 84 km, about halfway. Next is back through Segment Molle - Huarangal.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Molle - Huarangal write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Molle - Huarangal comes up about 89 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Segment Molle - Huarangal.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Molle - Huarangal write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 95 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Segment Molle - Huarangal. Next is back through Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac, late in the day. Next is Lima.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lima write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 160 km.
Lima → Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac → Segment Molle - Huarangal is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Molle - Huarangal → Segment Molle - Huarangal is 6 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Molle - Huarangal → Segment Santa Rosa de Chontay - Molle is 10 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Santa Rosa de Chontay - Molle → back through Segment Molle - Huarangal is 10 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Molle - Huarangal → back through Segment Molle - Huarangal is 6 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Molle - Huarangal → back through Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac → Lima is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.