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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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445 km from Nerpio to Nerpio, about 7 h 41 of riding. On the way it passes Las Casas de las Ingenieros I, Diosa madre, Abrigo del Sabinar and back through Diosa madre. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Nerpio is about as remote as mainland Spain gets. The village sits in the far southwest corner of Albacete province, in the Sierra de Segura, where the mountains of Andalusia, Murcia and Castilla-La Mancha meet, and the rock shelters scattered around it make up one of the richest concentrations of prehistoric art in the region. The Abrigo de las Cañadas II belongs to that group, an overhang in the hills between Nerpio and the high plateaus toward Huéscar and Yeste.
Read the complete Abrigo de las Cañadas II write-up.
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Abrigo de las Cañadas II is where the day begins. Next is Las Casas de las Ingenieros I.
The name points to engineers, and in this corner of Albacete the likeliest explanation is water. The upper Segura and Taibilla valleys feed reservoirs and canals that supply towns and farms far down toward Murcia and the coast, and the people who built and maintained that system needed houses in a remote landscape. Las Casas de los Ingenieros sits some distance from Nerpio, in a quiet valley of pine, scrub and farmland, with a rock shelter nearby, and the whole area is dotted with painted shelters from the prehistoric past. Other shelters in the area carry the names of the people who first recorded them, a reminder of how recently some of these sites were noticed.
Read the complete Las Casas de las Ingenieros I write-up.
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Las Casas de las Ingenieros I comes up about 67 km into the recorded legs. Next is Diosa madre.
Some places on a map feel remote; this one actually is. The point named Diosa Madre, mother goddess, lies in the mountains of the Sierra de Segura, in the far southwest of Albacete province, roughly sixteen kilometres from Yeste and not far from the border with Jaén. The mountains themselves are the real experience.
Read the complete Diosa madre write-up.
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about 135 km into the recorded legs you reach Diosa madre. Next is Abrigo del Sabinar.
The Abrigo del Sabinar lies in the remote mountains of north-western Murcia, near Moratalla, where the Sierra de Segura and the Sierra del Taibilla meet, and its paintings of human figures and animals, including deer and goats, are among the finest examples of Levantine rock art in the region. The shelter is part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing, and the area around Moratalla and Nerpio is particularly rich in painted shelters. The landscape is wild and rugged, with pine forests, limestone cliffs and deep river valleys, and the villages are few and far between.
Read the complete Abrigo del Sabinar write-up.
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Abrigo del Sabinar, about halfway. Next is back through Diosa madre.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Diosa madre write-up.
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back through Diosa madre sits at 297 km, about halfway. Next is back through Las Casas de las Ingenieros I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Las Casas de las Ingenieros I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Las Casas de las Ingenieros I comes up about 380 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de las Cañadas II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de las Cañadas II write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo de las Cañadas II closes the day.
Abrigo de las Cañadas II → Las Casas de las Ingenieros I is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Las Casas de las Ingenieros I → Diosa madre is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Diosa madre → Abrigo del Sabinar is 89 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Sabinar → back through Diosa madre is 89 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Diosa madre → back through Las Casas de las Ingenieros I is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Las Casas de las Ingenieros I → Abrigo de las Cañadas II is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.