Why this ride
A 128 km round trip from Millares - roughly 4 h 13 in the saddle. The stops in between: Abric de Lucio o Gavidia, Peñon de los machos and back through Abric de Lucio o Gavidia. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Abrigo Chorradores and Peñon de los machos
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 128 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 13
- 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. Abrigo Chorradores
Chorro is the Spanish word for a jet or spout of water, and a chorrador is a place where water spouts, so the name of this shelter suggests a spring or a waterfall that once poured from the rock nearby. It would have been a precious thing in this dry country, and probably explains why the painters chose the spot. The Abrigo Chorradores lies about two kilometres from Millares, a village of fewer than six hundred people in the rugged hills of inland Valencia, and carries painting in the Levantine tradition, protected by UNESCO as part of the rock art of the Mediterranean basin in Spain. The ride links it with a site called Barranco del Cabezo del Moro.
Read the complete Abrigo Chorradores write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Abrigo Chorradores is where the day begins. Next is Abric de Lucio o Gavidia.
2. Abric de Lucio o Gavidia
Ayora is the town for this country, and the road to the shelter starts there, in a broad valley of cereal fields, vines and almond trees where the horizon seems to move away as you approach it. The Valle de Ayora-Cofrentes lies in the south-west of the province of Valencia, between the Júcar river and the mountains of the interior, and it is the kind of landscape that you might cross without noticing, if you were not on the lookout for the dozens of painted shelters hidden in the surrounding gorges.
Read the complete Abric de Lucio o Gavidia write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Abric de Lucio o Gavidia comes up about 30 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 63 km into the recorded legs you reach Peñon de los machos. Next is back through Abric de Lucio o Gavidia.
4. back through Abric de Lucio o Gavidia
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de Lucio o Gavidia write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Abric de Lucio o Gavidia, late in the day. Next is Abrigo Chorradores.
5. Abrigo Chorradores
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo Chorradores write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Abrigo Chorradores. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Abrigo Chorradores to Abric de Lucio o Gavidia
Abrigo Chorradores → Abric de Lucio o Gavidia is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de Lucio o Gavidia to Peñon de los machos
Abric de Lucio o Gavidia → Peñon de los machos is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Peñon de los machos to back through Abric de Lucio o Gavidia
Peñon de los machos → back through Abric de Lucio o Gavidia is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de Lucio o Gavidia to Abrigo Chorradores
back through Abric de Lucio o Gavidia → Abrigo Chorradores is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.