CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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curated scenic road. Andes, reservoirs, mountain towns. From Medellín it runs 171 km to Medellín; allow about 4 h 36 of riding. It goes by way of Envigado, Retiro and Guatapé. The highest point is about 2,550 m. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 11 km this is Medellin Las Palmas and Oriente Loop, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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Medellín is a city in a bowl. It fills the Aburrá Valley in the Colombian Andes, with houses climbing the steep sides in tight brick and tin-roofed rows, and the mild climate at around 1,500 metres has earned it the nickname of the city of eternal spring. For decades the world knew it for the drug trade and its violence, but over the last twenty years it has changed itself with a good metro, cable cars that link the poorest hillside districts to the centre, library parks and outdoor escalators in the former no-go neighbourhood of Comuna 13. The sculptor and painter Fernando Botero, born here in 1932, gave the city a collection of his plump bronze figures in a plaza in the centre.
Read the complete Medellin write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Medellin Las Palmas and Oriente Loop point 1 sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Medellin Las Palmas and Oriente Loop point 2.
Medellin Las Palmas and Oriente Loop point 2 comes up 28 km in. Next is Medellin Las Palmas and Oriente Loop point 3.
56 km in you reach Medellin Las Palmas and Oriente Loop point 3. Next is Medellin Las Palmas and Oriente Loop point 4.
Guatapé is a lakeside town in the hills east of Medellín, and its fame rests on two things: the colour of its streets and a giant rock. The houses are decorated along the lower walls with painted reliefs known as zócalos, showing scenes of family life, animals, flowers and local trades, and every street is a gallery in bright blues, reds, greens and yellows. The effect is playful and the town takes it seriously, with each building competing to look better than its neighbours.
Read the complete Guatape write-up.
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Medellin Las Palmas and Oriente Loop point 4, late in the day. Next is Medellin Las Palmas and Oriente Loop point 5.
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Read the complete Medellin write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Medellin Las Palmas and Oriente Loop point 5 sits at 171 km, late in the day.