Why this ride
A 195 km round trip from Millares - roughly 8 h 14 in the saddle. It goes by way of Abric del Voro, Peñon de los machos and back through Abric del Voro. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Abric del Charco Negro and Peñon de los machos
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 195 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 8 h 14
- 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 del Charco Negro
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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Abric del Charco Negro is where the day begins. Next is Abric del Voro.
2. Abric del Voro
The Canal de Navarrés is a wide valley in the interior of Valencia province, surrounded by limestone mountains and deep gorges, and the Abric del Voro lies in the hills between Quesa and Bicorp, two small villages in the heart of some of the wildest country in the region. It is one of the many rock shelters with prehistoric paintings in the area, part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean rock art. The valley's most famous site is close by: the Cuevas de la Araña near Bicorp, where a painting of a figure climbing ropes to collect honey from a wild bees' nest, surrounded by bees, is one of the best-known images of prehistoric art in Spain, often cited as one of the earliest depictions of honey gathering.
Read the complete Abric del Voro write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Abric del Voro comes up about 38 km into the recorded legs. Next is Peñon de los machos.
3. Peñon de los machos
Cofrentes is a village at the confluence of two rivers, the Júcar and the Cabriel, in the interior of Valencia province, and it has a curious mix of attractions. Above it stands a castle on a crag. Nearby rises the Cerro de Agrás, the only recently active volcano in the Valencian Community, a dark cone of basalt in a landscape of limestone. And just outside the village, the cooling towers of the Cofrentes nuclear power station send plumes of steam into the sky. The Peñón de los Machos, a rocky outcrop with painted shelters, lies in the hills between Cofrentes, Jalance and Jarafuel.
Read the complete Peñon de los machos write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 97 km into the recorded legs you reach Peñon de los machos. Next is back through Abric del Voro.
4. back through Abric del Voro
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del Voro write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Abric del Voro, late in the day. Next is Abric del Charco Negro.
5. Abric del Charco Negro
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del Charco Negro write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Abric del Charco Negro. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Abric del Charco Negro to Abric del Voro
Abric del Charco Negro → Abric del Voro is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Voro to Peñon de los machos
Abric del Voro → Peñon de los machos is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Peñon de los machos to back through Abric del Voro
Peñon de los machos → back through Abric del Voro is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del Voro to Abric del Charco Negro
back through Abric del Voro → Abric del Charco Negro is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.