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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A 316 km round trip from Nerpio - roughly 9 h 51 in the saddle. The stops in between: Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I, Abrigo del Engarbo, Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras and Río frío. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
A rambla is a dry riverbed that only runs after storms, and the Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo is one of many that cut into the limestone hills around Nerpio, in the remote south-western corner of Albacete. In a rock shelter above it, prehistoric people left paintings in the Levantine style, small, lively figures of people and animals, and the site is one of the many shelters around Nerpio that belong to the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Visits are normally arranged through the village, and a guide will know which shelters are accessible and when the light is right for seeing the faded pigment.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo write-up.
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Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I.
Nerpio is about as far from anywhere as you can get in mainland Spain. The village sits in the southwestern corner of Albacete province, where Castilla-La Mancha meets Andalusia and Murcia, in the mountains of the Sierra de Segura, at the end of long, winding roads. It is known for its walnut trees, which line the valleys and give the village its pride, and for its rock art: the hills around are full of shelters with prehistoric paintings, and Nerpio is one of the most important centres for Levantine art in Spain. The Abrigo de la Fuente de Montañoz is one of these shelters, near a spring in the hills above the Taibilla river.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I write-up.
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Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I comes up about 31 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 68 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Engarbo. Next is Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras.
The name means the stream of the foxes' spring, which is the kind of place name that only survives in country where people still walk. The ravines around Nerpio hold dozens of painted rock shelters, with Levantine and Schematic paintings of hunters, animals and symbols, and they form part of the UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Visits to many of them need to be arranged through the local interpretation centre.
Read the complete Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras write-up.
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Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras, about halfway. 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 sits at 68 km, about halfway. Next is back through Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras write-up.
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back through Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras comes up about 194 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 243 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Abrigo del Engarbo. Next is back through Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I write-up.
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back through Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 316 km.
Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo → Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I → Abrigo del Engarbo is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Engarbo → Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras → Río frío is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Río frío → back through Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras → 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 → back through Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I → Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.