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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366 km from Velez Rubio to Velez Rubio, about 7 h 01 of riding. It goes by way of Abrigo de la Ventana I, Cañada de la Cruz and back through Abrigo de la Ventana I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Sometimes a name on a map is all you have, and this is one of those places. The Abrigo del Mojao belongs to the cluster of painted rock shelters in the high north-east of Almería, in the sierra country that spills across towards Murcia, and it sits some sixteen kilometres from the nearest village of any size. The shelters here are part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art tradition that UNESCO recognised in 1998, and their paintings are usually schematic, simple red signs and figures drawn by people who lived in this dry upland thousands of years ago.
Read the complete Abrigo del mojao write-up.
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Abrigo del mojao is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de la Ventana I.
High in the Sierra de Segura, where Albacete, Murcia and Jaén meet, the Taibilla river cuts a deep valley through limestone mountains, and the cliffs and shelters along its banks hide some of the finest prehistoric paintings in Spain. The Abrigo de la Ventana, the window shelter, is one of them, near the village of Nerpio, and it is part of the World Heritage site of Levantine rock art.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Ventana I write-up.
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Abrigo de la Ventana I comes up about 73 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cañada de la Cruz.
The Cañada de la Cruz is a high valley or drovers' pasture in the Segura mountains; cañada is the word for the traditional livestock routes and grazing grounds used by shepherds moving their flocks between summer and winter pastures, and this part of Spain has a long history of transhumance.
Read the complete Cañada de la Cruz write-up.
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about 181 km into the recorded legs you reach Cañada de la Cruz. Next is back through Abrigo de la Ventana I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Ventana I write-up.
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back through Abrigo de la Ventana I, late in the day. Next is Abrigo del mojao.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del mojao write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo del mojao. That is the ride.
Abrigo del mojao → Abrigo de la Ventana I is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Ventana I → Cañada de la Cruz is 108 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cañada de la Cruz → back through Abrigo de la Ventana I is 111 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la Ventana I → Abrigo del mojao is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.