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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296 km from Velez Rubio to Velez Rubio, about 8 h 13 of riding. On the way it passes Derecho E. de Santonje, Abrigo de la fuente, Albrigo de Jutia I and back through Abrigo de la fuente. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Almería is known for its beaches and desert, but the north of the province holds a different landscape: high, dry limestone mountains with pine forests, almond groves and a series of rock shelters where prehistoric people painted. The Sierra de María-Los Vélez rises above two thousand metres, and around the town of Vélez-Blanco several shelters preserve paintings of the Levantine style, with small, lively red figures of hunters, animals and humans. UNESCO lists Spain's Levantine rock art as a World Heritage Site, and the Abrigo de la Esperilla is one of those painted places.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Esperilla write-up.
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Abrigo de la Esperilla is where the day begins. Next is Derecho E. de Santonje, 28 km on.
Here the high plateau of northern Almería feels as far from the beach resorts as it is possible to be. The land is a wide, dry tableland of cereal fields, almond groves and scrubby pine, at about a thousand metres, with the Sierra de María rising above it in bare limestone ridges. The little village of María and the towns of Vélez Rubio and Vélez-Blanco are the centres of the district, known as Los Vélez, and the shelters of the area, including this one, hold prehistoric paintings in the Levantine style.
Read the complete Derecho E. de Santonje write-up.
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Derecho E. de Santonje comes up about 56 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de la fuente.
Nerpio is about as remote as it gets in southern Spain: a village in the far south-west corner of Albacete province, deep in the Sierra del Segura, close to the borders of Andalucía and Murcia. It sits in the valley of the Taibilla river, surrounded by mountains, with terraced fields, walnut trees and pine forests on the slopes. The Abrigo de la Fuente, the shelter of the spring, lies in the hills about eleven kilometres from the village.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente write-up.
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about 97 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de la fuente. Next is Albrigo de Jutia I.
Nerpio is about as far from anywhere as Spain gets. The village sits in the southern corner of the province of Albacete, where the Sierra de Segura and the mountains of Murcia and Granada meet, in a high valley cut by the Taibilla river. Around it, in the ravines and rock walls, are some of the most important prehistoric painted shelters in the country, and the Abrigo de Jutia is one of them. The Nerpio sites belong to the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin, and several of them, including the famous shelters of the Solana de las Covachas, show hunters, archers and animals painted in the Levantine style. Guided visits are organised from the village; ask locally about access and opening times, because the sites are protected and not all are open.
Read the complete Albrigo de Jutia I write-up.
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Albrigo de Jutia I, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de la fuente.
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Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente write-up.
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back through Abrigo de la fuente sits at 113 km, about halfway. Next is back through Derecho E. de Santonje, 28 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Derecho E. de Santonje write-up.
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back through Derecho E. de Santonje comes up about 240 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de la Esperilla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Esperilla write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo de la Esperilla closes the day.
Abrigo de la Esperilla → Derecho E. de Santonje is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Derecho E. de Santonje → Abrigo de la fuente is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la fuente → Albrigo de Jutia I is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Albrigo de Jutia I → back through Abrigo de la fuente is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la fuente → back through Derecho E. de Santonje is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Derecho E. de Santonje → Abrigo de la Esperilla is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.