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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From Quesa it runs 295 km to Quesa; allow about 9 h 29 of riding. The stops in between: Abrigo del mal Paso, Peñon de los machos, Abric de Tortosillas and back through Peñon de los machos. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Bicorp is a small village in the Canal de Navarrés, a valley in the interior of Valencia province walled in by rugged mountains and deep ravines. The surrounding Macizo del Caroig is one of the largest wild areas in the Valencian Community, a vast tableland of pine, scrub and gorges cut by the Júcar's tributaries. The Abric del Garrofero, the shelter of the carob tree, lies in the hills near Bicorp, Quesa and Navarrés.
Read the complete Abric del Garrofero write-up.
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Abric del Garrofero is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo del mal Paso.
The Júcar is the river behind this stop, though you cannot see it from the shelter. Millares is a village of about five hundred people in the broken hill country of inland Valencia, not far from where the great river runs out of the mountains and into the reservoir at Tous. The country around is a labyrinth of gorges, ravines and small plateaux, cut by the Júcar and its tributaries, with pine woods on the slopes and bare limestone on the tops.
Read the complete Abrigo del mal Paso write-up.
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Abrigo del mal Paso comes up about 53 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
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about 98 km into the recorded legs you reach Peñon de los machos. Next is Abric de Tortosillas.
The Abric de Tortosillas lies in the mountains near Ayora, in the inland valley of Ayora-Cofrentes in Valencia, and its paintings of human figures and animals are part of the rich rock art of this region, part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing. Nearby, at Alpera in Albacete province, the Cueva de la Vieja holds one of the most famous Levantine panels, with dozens of figures, archers, deer and goats, and an interpretation centre in the village. The landscape here is dry and mountainous, with pine forests, cliffs and the valley of the Júcar river.
Read the complete Abric de Tortosillas write-up.
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Abric de Tortosillas, about halfway. Next is back through Peñon de los machos.
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Read the complete Peñon de los machos write-up.
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back through Peñon de los machos sits at 117 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo del mal Paso.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del mal Paso write-up.
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back through Abrigo del mal Paso comes up about 242 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric del Garrofero.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del Garrofero write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abric del Garrofero closes the day.
Abric del Garrofero → Abrigo del mal Paso is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del mal Paso → Peñon de los machos is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Peñon de los machos → Abric de Tortosillas is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de Tortosillas → back through Peñon de los machos is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Peñon de los machos → back through Abrigo del mal Paso is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del mal Paso → Abric del Garrofero is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.