CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Velez Rubio it runs 174 km to Velez Rubio; allow about 4 h 22 of riding. The stops in between: Lavadero Tello V, Colmenas and back through Lavadero Tello V. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 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 Lavadero Tello V.
Los Vélez, in the north of Almería, is wool and almond country, and its history is one of shepherds, noblemen and Moriscos. For centuries flocks of sheep moved between the winter grazing of the lowlands and the summer pastures of the high sierras along old drove roads, and the area had a thriving wool trade. The shelter here, one of a group around Vélez-Blanco, carries prehistoric paintings, belonging to the Levantine art tradition that UNESCO recognises.
Read the complete Lavadero Tello V write-up.
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Lavadero Tello V comes up 20 km in. Next is Colmenas.
Vélez-Blanco is a white town under a limestone crag in the north of Almería province, with a Renaissance castle on the rock above it and the pine-covered Sierra María rising behind. The Colmenas label sits less than a kilometre away, in country of dry slopes, almond groves and scattered farms.
Read the complete Colmenas write-up.
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40 km in you reach Colmenas. Next is back through Lavadero Tello V.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lavadero Tello V write-up.
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back through Lavadero Tello V, 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 → Lavadero Tello V is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lavadero Tello V → Colmenas is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Colmenas → back through Lavadero Tello V is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lavadero Tello V → Abrigo del mojao is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.