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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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238 km from Nerpio to Nerpio, about 4 h 06 of riding. On the way it passes Guijarral, Abrigo del Engarbo and back through Guijarral. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Nerpio is about as far from anywhere as Spain gets. The village sits in the southern corner of the province of Albacete, where the Sierra de Segura and the mountains of Murcia and Granada meet, in a high valley cut by the Taibilla river. Around it, in the ravines and rock walls, are some of the most important prehistoric painted shelters in the country, and the Abrigo de Jutia is one of them. The Nerpio sites belong to the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin, and several of them, including the famous shelters of the Solana de las Covachas, show hunters, archers and animals painted in the Levantine style. Guided visits are organised from the village; ask locally about access and opening times, because the sites are protected and not all are open.
Read the complete Albrigo de Jutia I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Albrigo de Jutia I is where the day begins. Next is Guijarral.
Spain's largest protected area is the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas, and it spreads across a long stretch of wooded mountains in Jaén and Albacete. The Guijarral lies on its northern edge, in country close to Yeste, Segura de la Sierra and Orcera, where black pines and holm oaks cover steep slopes and rivers cut gorges between. Here, among rock walls, shelters preserve paintings, part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art listed by UNESCO in 1998, and the sites of the area, such as Zona 1 and the Collado de la Cruz, tell of hunting peoples who lived in these mountains long ago.
Read the complete Guijarral write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Guijarral comes up about 41 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Engarbo.
Deep in the Sierra de Segura in the northeast of Jaén province, close to where the Segura river is born, the Engarbo rock shelters hide a few small painted figures under limestone overhangs. They belong to the great serial UNESCO listing of Levantine rock art, prehistoric paintings found along the mountains of eastern Spain, with stylised humans and animals in red ochre that have survived thousands of years of sun, frost and goats. The shelters are modest and fragile, often fenced, and visits usually need to be arranged locally, so treat them as a reason to explore this remote corner rather than a guaranteed sight.
Read the complete Abrigo del Engarbo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 119 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Engarbo. Next is back through Guijarral.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Guijarral write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Guijarral, late in the day. Next is Albrigo de Jutia I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Albrigo de Jutia I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Albrigo de Jutia I. That is the ride.
Albrigo de Jutia I → Guijarral is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Guijarral → Abrigo del Engarbo is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Engarbo → back through Guijarral is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Guijarral → Albrigo de Jutia I is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.