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 496 km round trip from Lima - roughly 11 h 38 in the saddle. On the way it passes Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco, Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi, Segment Masho - Piticocha and Segment Portachuelo - Laguna Escalera. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,700 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
This part of the ride is 74 km of Lima → Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco.
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 Casila Alto - Chillaco.
In the mountains east of Lima, high above the desert coast, a stone path clings to the slopes of the province of Huarochirí. It is a section of the Qhapaq Ñan, the great Inca road system, which in this region linked the sacred coastal sanctuary of Pachacamac with Jauja and the central highlands. The segment between Casila Alto and Chillaco is one of the stretches listed by UNESCO in 2014 as part of the transnational Andean Road System. The Inca engineers built it with retaining walls, steps and drainage channels to cope with the steep terrain and seasonal rains, and parts are still used by local farmers and their animals.
Read the complete Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco write-up.
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Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco comes up about 74 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi.
The mountains above Lima rise quickly from the desert coast, and within a couple of hours the city's sprawl gives way to steep valleys, terraced slopes and high villages perched on spurs. The segment of the Inca road between San Juan de Tantaranche and Huarochirí runs through this country, part of the Qhapaq Ñan route that linked the sanctuary of Pachacamac on the coast with the highland centre of Xauxa, crossing near the sacred mountain of Pariacaca.
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At least about 164 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi. Next is Segment Masho - Piticocha.
High above Lima, where the desert coast gives way to the bare, windswept grasslands of the Andean puna, an old stone path crosses the mountains of Huarochirí. This is a segment of the Qhapaq Ñan, the great Inca road network that UNESCO listed in 2014, and it is one of the many trails that linked the Pacific coast with the central highlands. The region has a particular literary fame: a Quechua manuscript from around 1600, known as the Huarochirí Manuscript, records the myths and rituals of the local communities, with stories of mountain gods, floods and the great shrine of Pachacamac on the coast. It is among the few surviving texts that tell the pre-Hispanic stories in their own words.
Read the complete Segment Masho - Piticocha write-up.
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Segment Masho - Piticocha, about halfway. Next is Segment Portachuelo - Laguna Escalera.
It is part of the Qhapaq Ñan, the Inca road network, a web of about thirty thousand kilometres of paved and stepped paths that linked the empire from Colombia to Chile and Argentina, and which UNESCO listed in 2014 across six countries. A segment named for a portachuelo, a small pass, and a lake, Laguna Escalera, suggests a path that climbs from a valley through a notch in the ridge and drops to a lake on the far side, as Inca roads often do.
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Segment Portachuelo - Laguna Escalera sits at 161 km, about halfway. Next is back through Segment Masho - Piticocha.
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back through Segment Masho - Piticocha comes up about 284 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi.
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about 331 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi. Next is back through Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco.
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Read the complete Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco write-up.
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back through Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco, late in the day. Next is Lima.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lima write-up.
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The route ends here after 496 km.
Lima → Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco → Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi → Segment Masho - Piticocha is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Masho - Piticocha → Segment Portachuelo - Laguna Escalera is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Portachuelo - Laguna Escalera → back through Segment Masho - Piticocha is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Masho - Piticocha → back through Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi → back through Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco → Lima is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.