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 434 km round trip from Millares - roughly 9 h 17 in the saddle. It goes by way of Abric Pedro más, Abrigo del Buen Aire I and back through Abric Pedro más. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
On 20 October 1982, after days of torrential rain, the dam at Tous on the Júcar gave way. The flood that followed swept down the Ribera, drowned fields and towns, and forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people, and it remains one of the great disasters in the modern history of the Valencian country. The reservoir was rebuilt with a larger spillway, and today it is a calm sheet of water, but the people of Carlet and the neighbouring villages have not forgotten. The Abric del Charco Negro lies some way upstream, in the hills above Millares, where the Júcar and its tributaries cut through limestone.
Read the complete Abric del Charco Negro write-up.
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Abric del Charco Negro is where the day begins. Next is Abric Pedro más.
Almansa announces itself from far away: a castle perched on a limestone crag right in the middle of the town, its walls and towers silhouetted against the sky. The town sits at the eastern edge of La Mancha, where the high plateau meets the mountains of Valencia, and it was here, in April 1707, that one of the decisive battles of the War of the Spanish Succession was fought, when the Bourbon army defeated an allied force and secured the throne of Spain for Philip V. A monument on the battlefield and a museum in town tell the story. In the hills to the north, near Alpera, the Abric Pedro Mas holds prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO listing of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Nearby, the Cueva de la Vieja is one of the best-known Levantine sites, with archers, deer and goats.
Read the complete Abric Pedro más write-up.
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Abric Pedro más comes up about 70 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Buen Aire I.
Jumilla country is dry, wide and honest. The town sits in the far north of Murcia where it bulges up towards Albacete, surrounded by limestone sierras, almond groves and vineyards of Monastrell grapes that make some of the most powerful red wine in Spain. A few kilometres outside town, in the folds of these hills, lie a group of small rock shelters known as the Abrigos del Buen Aire. They belong to the long chain of prehistoric painted sites strung along the eastern side of the peninsula that UNESCO lists together as the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin.
Read the complete Abrigo del Buen Aire I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 216 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Buen Aire I. Next is back through Abric Pedro más.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric Pedro más write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric Pedro más, late in the day. Next is Abric del Charco Negro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del Charco Negro write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abric del Charco Negro. That is the ride.
Abric del Charco Negro → Abric Pedro más is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric Pedro más → Abrigo del Buen Aire I is 146 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Buen Aire I → back through Abric Pedro más is 147 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric Pedro más → Abric del Charco Negro is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.