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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351 km from Montealegre del Castillo to Montealegre del Castillo, about 6 h 36 of riding. The stops in between: Abrigo del Canto Blanco, Abrigo de las Enredaderas, Abrigo de los Cortijos and El Laberinto. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
North of Yecla, where the Murcia region meets Albacete, the land rises into a series of isolated limestone hills above a wide, dry plain of vineyards and almond groves. The rock shelters scattered through this country, including the Abrigo del Mediodía, are part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean Iberian rock art. The best known cluster is on Monte Arabí, a striking, isolated rock mountain north of the town, whose Cantos de la Visera shelters hold both Levantine and schematic paintings.
Read the complete Abrigo del mediodía I write-up.
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Abrigo del mediodía I is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo del Canto Blanco.
Jumilla is wine country, and you know it as soon as you arrive. The town sits in the north of the Murcia region, surrounded by a high, dry plateau of vineyards growing the Monastrell grape, which produces powerful, dark red wines. A castle tops the hill above the old town, and the bodegas on its outskirts welcome visitors. The Abrigo del Canto Blanco, the shelter of the white stone, lies in the hills about five kilometres away.
Read the complete Abrigo del Canto Blanco write-up.
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Abrigo del Canto Blanco comes up about 38 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de las Enredaderas.
Where the Río Segura squeezes through the sandstone and limestone ridges of northern Murcia, between Calasparra and Cieza, the valley turns into a canyon of orange and grey rock with narrow green strips of reeds and orchard along the water. The Abrigo de las Enredaderas, a rock shelter, lies twelve kilometres or so from both towns, in dry hills of pine, rosemary and esparto grass that smell sharply of resin on a hot day.
Read the complete Abrigo de las Enredaderas write-up.
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about 83 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de las Enredaderas. Next is Abrigo de los Cortijos.
Hellín is a town in the south-east of Albacete province, on the edge of the dry plains of La Mancha, where the landscape breaks into hills and ravines on its way down to the Segura river. Its old town climbs a hill crowned by a castle, and its streets are lined with houses from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Abrigo de los Cortijos lies in the hills about nine kilometres from the town, toward Albatana and Tobarra.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Cortijos write-up.
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Abrigo de los Cortijos, about halfway. Next is El Laberinto.
Calasparra is a rice town, which sounds odd until you see the terraces beside the Segura river, flooded and green in summer, with herons wading between the plants. The rice here has its own protected designation, and it is the base for paella in much of Spain. The river has carved a deep gorge, the Almadenes canyon, on its way through the hills, and in the rock above the water, hidden among limestone cliffs, there are shelters decorated with paintings made thousands of years ago. El Laberinto is one of them, part of the rock art tradition of the Mediterranean basin, listed by UNESCO.
Read the complete El Laberinto write-up.
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El Laberinto sits at 147 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de los Cortijos.
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Read the complete Abrigo de los Cortijos write-up.
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back through Abrigo de los Cortijos comes up about 220 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abrigo de las Enredaderas.
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Read the complete Abrigo de las Enredaderas write-up.
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about 268 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Abrigo de las Enredaderas. Next is back through Abrigo del Canto Blanco.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Canto Blanco write-up.
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back through Abrigo del Canto Blanco, late in the day. Next is Abrigo del mediodía I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del mediodía I write-up.
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The route ends here after 351 km.
Abrigo del mediodía I → Abrigo del Canto Blanco is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Canto Blanco → Abrigo de las Enredaderas is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de las Enredaderas → Abrigo de los Cortijos is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de los Cortijos → El Laberinto is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
El Laberinto → back through Abrigo de los Cortijos is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de los Cortijos → back through Abrigo de las Enredaderas is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de las Enredaderas → back through Abrigo del Canto Blanco is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del Canto Blanco → Abrigo del mediodía I is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.