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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From Lima it runs 131 km to Lima; allow about 3 h 29 of riding. On the way it passes Segment Molle - Huarangal, Segment Santa Rosa de Chontay - Molle, Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay and back through Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,600 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 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.
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Segment Molle - Huarangal comes up about 43 km into the recorded legs. 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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At least about 54 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Santa Rosa de Chontay - Molle. Next is Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay.
East of Lima, the Rímac valley cuts up into the Andes between brown, bare mountains, and the land here is a dry, stony slope broken by green patches of irrigated orchards and fields wherever there is water. The segment from Sisicaya to Santa Rosa de Chontay belongs to the Qhapaq Ñan, the Inca road network of some thirty thousand kilometres, which UNESCO listed in 2014. In this part of the world the roads connected the coastal valleys with the highlands, and a short walk along the surviving stonework gives a sense of the mountains the Incas had to cross.
Read the complete Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay write-up.
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Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay, about halfway.
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Read the complete Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay write-up.
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Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay sits at 60 km, about halfway. Next is back through Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay.
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Read the complete Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay write-up.
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back through Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay comes up about 75 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Segment Santa Rosa de Chontay - Molle.
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Read the complete Segment Santa Rosa de Chontay - Molle write-up.
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about 78 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Segment Santa Rosa de Chontay - Molle. Next is back through Segment Molle - Huarangal.
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Read the complete Segment Molle - Huarangal write-up.
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back through Segment Molle - Huarangal, late in the day. Next is Lima.
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Read the complete Lima write-up.
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The route ends here after 131 km.
Lima → Segment Molle - Huarangal is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Molle - Huarangal → Segment Santa Rosa de Chontay - Molle is 11 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay → Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay is 6 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay → back through Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay is 12 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Santa Rosa de Chontay - Molle → back through Segment Molle - Huarangal is 11 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Molle - Huarangal → Lima is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.