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 227 km to Nerpio; allow about 5 h 11 of riding. On the way it passes mingarnao I, Cañaica del Calar l, Las Cabritas and Cañaica del Calar lI. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 mingarnao I.
Everything about Nerpio feels remote, and Mingarnao pushes the feeling a little further. The shelter sits in the Sierra de Segura, where the road ends and tracks wander over limestone ridges, through pine woods and past small farms. A scattering of hamlets, such as Yeste, Letur and Nerpio itself, are the nearest signs of life, and the nearest big town in the data, Moratalla, is a long 38 km away. The sense of space is the point of coming here.
Read the complete mingarnao I write-up.
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mingarnao I comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cañaica del Calar l.
Very few people get here. The Cañaica del Calar lies in the far north-west of the region of Murcia, near the border with Albacete and Andalusia, in a wild landscape of limestone plateaus, pine forests and deep valleys around Moratalla and Nerpio. The calar is the local word for a limestone plateau, and the rock shelters on its edges hold prehistoric paintings in the Levantine style, part of the World Heritage rock art of the Mediterranean. The area around Nerpio is one of the richest in Spain for rock art.
Read the complete Cañaica del Calar l write-up.
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about 56 km into the recorded legs you reach Cañaica del Calar l. Next is Las Cabritas.
Nerpio sits at the edge of the world, or at least at the edge of Albacete province, a small village in the Sierra de Taibilla close to where Murcia, Granada and Jaén come together. Its walnuts are famous, grown in old orchards along the river, and the hills around it hold some of the finest Levantine rock art in Spain. Las Cabritas, the little goats, is a shelter just over a kilometre from the village, named after the animals painted on its walls, and it is part of the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin.
Read the complete Las Cabritas write-up.
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Las Cabritas, about halfway. Next is Cañaica del Calar lI.
Cañaica del Calar lies in the south of Albacete province, on the edge of a rugged corner of the Sierra del Segura where Murcia, Albacete and Jaén nearly meet. The painted shelter that bears its name, listed here as Cañaica del Calar II, is in a landscape of dry limestone ridges, pines and sudden ravines that drain into the Río Segura. The village of Nerpio is eleven kilometres away, and Moratalla, the nearest sizeable town, is twenty-six, so this is a long way to go on the strength of a single rock face.
Read the complete Cañaica del Calar lI write-up.
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Cañaica del Calar lI sits at 67 km, about halfway. Next is back through Las Cabritas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Las Cabritas write-up.
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back through Las Cabritas comes up about 147 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Cañaica del Calar l.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cañaica del Calar l write-up.
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about 172 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Cañaica del Calar l. Next is back through mingarnao I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete mingarnao I write-up.
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back through mingarnao I, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de las Cañadas II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de las Cañadas II write-up.
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The route ends here after 227 km.
Abrigo de las Cañadas II → mingarnao I is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
mingarnao I → Cañaica del Calar l is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cañaica del Calar l → Las Cabritas is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Las Cabritas → Cañaica del Calar lI is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cañaica del Calar lI → back through Las Cabritas is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Las Cabritas → back through Cañaica del Calar l is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cañaica del Calar l → back through mingarnao I is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through mingarnao I → Abrigo de las Cañadas II is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.