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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281 km from Nerpio to Nerpio, about 6 h 57 of riding. The stops in between: Abrigo del Engarbo, Letreros de los mártires, Río frío and back through Letreros de los mártires. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Nerpio, in the south-east corner of Albacete province, sits at the end of a long run of mountain road, and the Abrigo de la Hoz belongs to the area's rich group of painted shelters. The name means the shelter of the gorge, hoz being the old Spanish word for a narrow river canyon, and the cliffs near the Taibilla river do indeed have a gorge-like feel. The paintings, in red, show the typical cast of animals and human figures, and they are part of the UNESCO listing for the rock art of the Mediterranean basin.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Hoz write-up.
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Abrigo de la Hoz is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo del Engarbo.
Deep in the Sierra de Segura in the northeast of Jaén province, close to where the Segura river is born, the Engarbo rock shelters hide a few small painted figures under limestone overhangs. They belong to the great serial UNESCO listing of Levantine rock art, prehistoric paintings found along the mountains of eastern Spain, with stylised humans and animals in red ochre that have survived thousands of years of sun, frost and goats. The shelters are modest and fragile, often fenced, and visits usually need to be arranged locally, so treat them as a reason to explore this remote corner rather than a guaranteed sight.
Read the complete Abrigo del Engarbo write-up.
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Abrigo del Engarbo comes up about 41 km into the recorded legs. Next is Letreros de los mártires.
Out in the high north-east of Granada province, Huéscar feels a long way from the Alhambra and the beaches of the Costa Tropical. This is the altiplano, a broad upland of wheat fields, almond trees and pale badlands at around a thousand metres, ringed by mountains, with the great limestone hump of La Sagra rising to the north. The rock shelter called Letreros de los Mártires lies in this country, a dozen or so kilometres from the town.
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about 89 km into the recorded legs you reach Letreros de los mártires. Next is Río frío.
Cold water is a rare luxury in southern Spain, and a stream called Río Frío promises exactly that. It is a land of pine forests, limestone crags, deep river gorges and tiny villages, and the painted rock shelters scattered through these hills are part of the UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula.
Read the complete Río frío write-up.
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Río frío, about halfway. Next is back through Letreros de los mártires.
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Read the complete Letreros de los mártires write-up.
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back through Letreros de los mártires sits at 107 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo del Engarbo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Engarbo write-up.
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back through Abrigo del Engarbo comes up about 235 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de la Hoz.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Hoz write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo de la Hoz closes the day.
Abrigo de la Hoz → Abrigo del Engarbo is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Engarbo → Letreros de los mártires is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Letreros de los mártires → Río frío is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Río frío → back through Letreros de los mártires is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Letreros de los mártires → back through Abrigo del Engarbo is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del Engarbo → Abrigo de la Hoz is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.