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 Nerpio it runs 154 km to Nerpio; allow about 3 h 46 of riding. It goes by way of Zona 1, Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il and back through Zona 1. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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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Abrigo de la fuente is where the day begins. Next is Zona 1.
Nerpio is about as far from anywhere as you can get in mainland Spain. The village lies in the southwestern corner of Albacete province, close to the borders of Murcia, Granada and Jaén, in a high, wild landscape of limestone ridges, pine forest and deep river valleys. The area is known for two things: walnuts, which grow in huge old trees along the Taibilla river and are celebrated in local cooking, and one of the densest concentrations of prehistoric rock art in the Iberian Peninsula, part of the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. The generic label Zona 1 points at the hills near the village, where rock shelters with painted figures are scattered across the cliffs.
Read the complete Zona 1 write-up.
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Zona 1 comes up about 41 km into the recorded legs. Next is Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il.
Water from these mountains ends up in the taps of Cartagena. The Taibilla river, which rises in the hills above Nerpio, feeds the canals of the Mancomunidad de los Canales del Taibilla, built in the twentieth century to supply towns across Murcia and beyond, and a name like the engineers' houses hints at how much that project marked the valley. Las Casas de los Ingenieros II is a rock shelter near Nerpio, one of the many painted sites in this remote corner of the Sierra de Segura.
Read the complete Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il write-up.
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about 67 km into the recorded legs you reach Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il. Next is back through Zona 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zona 1 write-up.
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back through Zona 1, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de la fuente.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo de la fuente. That is the ride.
Abrigo de la fuente → Zona 1 is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zona 1 → Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il → back through Zona 1 is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zona 1 → Abrigo de la fuente is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.