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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348 km from Nerpio to Nerpio, about 5 h 51 of riding. On the way it passes Abrigo de los Gavilanes, Los Grajos and back through Abrigo de los Gavilanes. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The Collado de la Cruz is a saddle in the wild Sierra del Segura, in the south-west corner of Albacete province, and the shelter here belongs to one of the richest regions of prehistoric painting in Spain. Nerpio, the village about three and a half kilometres away, sits at over a thousand metres and is surrounded by dozens of rock-art sites, in both the Levantine style and the later schematic style, which uses simple dots, lines and stick-like figures. The Levantine paintings are protected by UNESCO as part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula.
Read the complete Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz write-up.
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Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de los Gavilanes.
Gavilanes means sparrowhawks, and the name fits a shelter high on a limestone face above the dry country where Murcia meets Almería. The Abrigo de los Gavilanes lies in the hills west of Lorca, in an area scattered with painted shelters such as the Collado de la Cruz and Los Grajos, the jackdaws, and it is part of the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. The figures are small, red and schematic, painted by communities who farmed and herded here thousands of years ago.
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Abrigo de los Gavilanes comes up about 84 km into the recorded legs. Next is Los Grajos.
Jackdaws gave this place its name, grajos in Spanish, and they still wheel and chatter around the limestone cliffs where prehistoric people once sheltered and painted. Los Grajos lies in the hills near Alhama de Murcia, in the valley of the Guadalentín, where dry mountains rise above a plain of orchards, greenhouses and towns. The rock shelters here hold paintings in the Levantine style, and access is generally restricted to protect them.
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about 175 km into the recorded legs you reach Los Grajos. Next is back through Abrigo de los Gavilanes.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Gavilanes write-up.
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back through Abrigo de los Gavilanes, late in the day. Next is Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz. That is the ride.
Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz → Abrigo de los Gavilanes is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de los Gavilanes → Los Grajos is 91 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Los Grajos → back through Abrigo de los Gavilanes is 88 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Abrigo de los Gavilanes → Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.