Why this ride
139 km from Bicorp to Bicorp, about 2 h 40 of riding. It goes by way of Cueva del Cerro, Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I and back through Cueva del Cerro. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Abric de la Balsa Calicanto and Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 139 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 40
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Abric de la Balsa Calicanto
Bicorp is a village of just over six hundred people in the dry, broken country where the Valencian interior folds into the gorges of the Júcar and the Cabriel, and the Balsa Calicanto shelter lies about four kilometres from it. Rock art is at home here. In the same municipality, the Cueva de la Araña, the Spider Cave, holds one of the best-known scenes in Spanish prehistoric painting: a small figure climbing what look like ropes or vines to raid a wild bees' nest, honey bag in hand. It was painted by hunter-gatherers thousands of years ago, and it is part of the UNESCO-listed Levantine rock art. Many of the other shelters nearby are more modest, and Calicanto is one of those.
Read the complete Abric de la Balsa Calicanto write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Abric de la Balsa Calicanto is where the day begins. Next is Cueva del Cerro.
2. Cueva del Cerro
Inland Valencia is a world away from the beaches on the coast. Behind the orange groves and the motorway the land rises into dry, folded mountains cut by deep gorges, where villages of a few hundred people cling to the hillsides and the pines smell of resin in the heat. Millares and Dos Aguas lie in this country, near the Júcar and Cabriel rivers, and the Cueva del Cerro is a rock shelter in the limestone, one of the many places in eastern Spain where prehistoric people left paintings on the walls.
Read the complete Cueva del Cerro write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Cueva del Cerro comes up about 22 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I.
3. Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I
Alginet sits in the Ribera Alta, the flat, fertile plain south of Valencia where the Júcar river spreads out among orange groves, rice fields and small towns. To the west, the plain meets the first hills of the interior, low ridges of limestone covered in pine and scrub. The Barranc de la Falaguera, the ravine of the fern, cuts into these hills near Alginet, Alfarp and Benifaió.
Read the complete Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 69 km into the recorded legs you reach Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I. Next is back through Cueva del Cerro.
4. back through Cueva del Cerro
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva del Cerro write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Cueva del Cerro, late in the day. Next is Abric de la Balsa Calicanto.
5. Abric de la Balsa Calicanto
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de la Balsa Calicanto write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Abric de la Balsa Calicanto. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Abric de la Balsa Calicanto to Cueva del Cerro
Abric de la Balsa Calicanto → Cueva del Cerro is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva del Cerro to Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I
Cueva del Cerro → Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I to back through Cueva del Cerro
Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I → back through Cueva del Cerro is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva del Cerro to Abric de la Balsa Calicanto
back through Cueva del Cerro → Abric de la Balsa Calicanto is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.