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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334 km from Nerpio to Nerpio, about 8 h 47 of riding. On the way it passes Diosa madre, Río frío, Letreros de los mártires and back through Río frío. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The Covachos, the little caves, are a short ride from Nerpio, a mountain village of about sixteen hundred people in the south-west of Albacete province, in the headwaters of the Segura river. The shelter is one of dozens in this district, which has one of the densest concentrations of prehistoric painting in Spain, in both the Levantine style and the later schematic one. UNESCO protects the Levantine sites as part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. What makes Nerpio special is that the paintings are scattered through a living landscape of farms, springs and sheep tracks, so you may find yourself looking at a thousands-year-old figure with a shepherd's dog watching from the next rock.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Covachos write-up.
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Abrigo de los Covachos is where the day begins. 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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Diosa madre comes up about 51 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 122 km into the recorded legs you reach Río frío. 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.
Read the complete Letreros de los mártires write-up.
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Letreros de los mártires, about halfway. Next is back through Río frío.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Río frío write-up.
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back through Río frío sits at 109 km, 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 comes up about 284 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de los Covachos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Covachos write-up.
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Abrigo de los Covachos closes the day.
Abrigo de los Covachos → Diosa madre is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Diosa madre → Río frío is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Río frío → Letreros de los mártires is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Letreros de los mártires → back through Río frío is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Río frío → back through Diosa madre is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Diosa madre → Abrigo de los Covachos is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.