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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374 km from Bárcabo to Bárcabo, about 6 h 34 of riding. The stops in between: Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña, Chaves I, Forau del Cocho and back through Chaves I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The Sierra de Guara is the southern edge of the Pyrenees, a rough range of sandstone and limestone where rivers have cut deep, dark canyons that are among the best in Europe for canyoning. The Abrigo de Arilla lies in that country, well off the main roads, in the lonely hills between Alquézar and the Sierra, and is one of the rock shelters of the Río Vero cultural park. The paintings are mostly Levantine and schematic, thousands of years old, and are part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art that UNESCO listed in 1998. Reaching the shelters generally requires a walk, and regulations apply.
Read the complete Abrigo de Arilla write-up.
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Abrigo de Arilla is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña.
Just north of Huesca, where the flat cereal land of the Hoya suddenly rears up into the first limestone walls of the Pre-Pyrenees, lies the little village of Nueno and, above it, the rock shelter named after Santa Eulalia de la Peña. This is the southern edge of the Sierra de Guara country, a landscape of gorges, conglomerate cliffs and scrub where griffon vultures ride the thermals and the light comes hard off pale stone.
Read the complete Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña write-up.
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Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña comes up about 79 km into the recorded legs. Next is Chaves I.
The Cueva de Chaves, in the foothills of the Sierra de Guara in Huesca, was one of the most important Neolithic sites in the Iberian Peninsula, with deposits showing some of the earliest farming and herding in north-eastern Spain. In 2007, in an act that caused outrage, the landowner bulldozed the cave's floor deposits, destroying much of the archaeological record, and the case went to court. Rock art shelters in the area, including Chaves I and others in the Vero river valley, survive and are part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing, with paintings ranging from Palaeolithic to schematic art.
Read the complete Chaves I write-up.
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about 137 km into the recorded legs you reach Chaves I. Next is Forau del Cocho.
South of Huesca the land opens out. The Pyrenees are behind you, a snowy line on a clear day, and ahead stretches the gently rolling cereal country that eventually turns into the dry steppes of Los Monegros. Forau del Cocho lies in this transitional landscape, between Torres de Barbués, Almuniente and the outskirts of Huesca itself, a place where the only relief is the occasional low ridge or gully cut into soft rock.
Read the complete Forau del Cocho write-up.
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Forau del Cocho, about halfway. Next is back through Chaves I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chaves I write-up.
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back through Chaves I sits at 147 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña write-up.
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back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña comes up about 294 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de Arilla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de Arilla write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo de Arilla closes the day.
Abrigo de Arilla → Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → Chaves I is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chaves I → Forau del Cocho is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Forau del Cocho → back through Chaves I is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chaves I → back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → Abrigo de Arilla is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.