Why this ride
From Río Guayabal de Yateras it runs 178 km to Río Guayabal de Yateras; allow about 4 h 37 of riding. On the way it passes El Salvador, Niceto Pérez and back through El Salvador. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Alejandro de Humboldt National Park and Niceto Pérez
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 178 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 37
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
Alejandro de Humboldt National Park is generally considered the richest patch of nature in the whole Caribbean, and on a bike you approach it the hard way, through mining country and over some of the worst roads in Cuba. The park covers a huge block of mountains and rainforest in the far east of the island, between the nickel town of Moa and Baracoa, and runs down to the coast at Bahía de Taco, where a small visitor station organises guided walks and boat trips into the mangroves.
Read the complete Alejandro de Humboldt National Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Alejandro de Humboldt National Park is where the day begins. Next is El Salvador.
2. El Salvador
In the mountains north of Guantánamo, at the eastern end of Cuba, the Sierra del Purial and the hills around the town of El Salvador rise steeply from the dry coastal plain into a greener, cooler world of forest and coffee. At the end of the eighteenth century, French planters fleeing the slave revolution in Saint-Domingue, today's Haiti, settled in these mountains and built coffee plantations, with stone drying terraces, mills, aqueducts and grand houses, worked by enslaved Africans. The ruins of more than a hundred and seventy of these plantations survive in the Sierra Maestra and around Guantánamo, and they were listed by UNESCO in 2000 as the Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba.
Read the complete El Salvador write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
El Salvador comes up 35 km in. Next is Niceto Pérez.
3. Niceto Pérez
Niceto Pérez is a rural municipality in the hills just west of the city of Guantánamo, in the far east of Cuba, a region of sugar cane, small farms and mountains rising towards the Sierra Maestra and the coffee country of the Gran Piedra. It is not a place that features in many guidebooks, and that is part of its interest. The surrounding hills hold the remains of the coffee plantations established in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by French planters fleeing the revolution in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, and the archaeological landscape of those first coffee plantations in the south east of Cuba is listed by UNESCO.
Read the complete Niceto Pérez write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
70 km in you reach Niceto Pérez. Next is back through El Salvador.
4. back through El Salvador
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete El Salvador write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through El Salvador, late in the day. Next is Alejandro de Humboldt National Park.
5. Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Alejandro de Humboldt National Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Alejandro de Humboldt National Park. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Alejandro de Humboldt National Park to El Salvador
Alejandro de Humboldt National Park → El Salvador is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
El Salvador to Niceto Pérez
El Salvador → Niceto Pérez is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Niceto Pérez to back through El Salvador
Niceto Pérez → back through El Salvador is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through El Salvador to Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
back through El Salvador → Alejandro de Humboldt National Park is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.