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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90 km from Nerpio to Nerpio, about 1 h 42 of riding. On the way it passes Cañaica del Calar l, Andragulla I and back through Cañaica del Calar l. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Nerpio is a small village that looks like it has been there for ever, with white houses, a church, a few bars and a plaza where old men sit in the sun, and it is worth getting to know before heading out to the shelters. Its position on a high plateau, at around a thousand metres, makes it cool in summer and cold in winter, and the village has a long tradition of mountain farming: cereals, almonds, sheep and, in the valley bottoms, fruit trees. The Abrigos de los Ídolos are under a kilometre and a half from the plaza.
Read the complete Abriga de los Idolos write-up.
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Abriga de los Idolos is where the day begins. Next is Cañaica del Calar l.
Very few people get here. The Cañaica del Calar lies in the far north-west of the region of Murcia, near the border with Albacete and Andalusia, in a wild landscape of limestone plateaus, pine forests and deep valleys around Moratalla and Nerpio. The calar is the local word for a limestone plateau, and the rock shelters on its edges hold prehistoric paintings in the Levantine style, part of the World Heritage rock art of the Mediterranean. The area around Nerpio is one of the richest in Spain for rock art.
Read the complete Cañaica del Calar l write-up.
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Cañaica del Calar l comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Andragulla I.
In the far north-west corner of the Region of Murcia, where the land climbs towards the mountains of Albacete and Jaén, lies Moratalla, a town of whitewashed houses piled up a hillside beneath a castle tower. Its countryside is surprisingly wild for Murcia: pine forests, rivers, gorges and limestone ridges, some of the greenest land in a famously dry region. The rock shelter of Andragulla is one of many painted overhangs scattered through these hills, part of the Levantine rock art sites inscribed together by UNESCO. Many are protected behind fences and need a guide; the tourist office in Moratalla can advise.
Read the complete Andragulla I write-up.
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about 42 km into the recorded legs you reach Andragulla I. Next is back through Cañaica del Calar l.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cañaica del Calar l write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cañaica del Calar l, late in the day. Next is Abriga de los Idolos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abriga de los Idolos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abriga de los Idolos. That is the ride.
Abriga de los Idolos → Cañaica del Calar l is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cañaica del Calar l → Andragulla I is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Andragulla I → back through Cañaica del Calar l is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cañaica del Calar l → Abriga de los Idolos is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.