CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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659 km from Apiaí to Apiaí, about 16 h 16 of riding. On the way it passes Xitue Ecological Station, Lauraceas State Park, Pariquera - Abaixo State Park and back through Lauraceas State Park. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Ribeira valley, in the south of Sao Paulo state, holds the largest remaining stretch of Atlantic Forest in Brazil, and under it lies one of the great cave regions of the Americas. The park called PETAR, the Alto Ribeira Touristic State Park, covers hills of limestone that are riddled with hundreds of caves, many of them with underground rivers, huge chambers and elaborate formations of stalactites and stalagmites. The forest above is thick with ferns, bromeliads and trees draped in moss, and it belongs to the Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves, a UNESCO World Heritage listing from 1999.
Read the complete Alto Ribeira Touristic State Park write-up.
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Alto Ribeira Touristic State Park is where the day begins. Next is Xitue Ecological Station.
The Xitue Ecological Station is a different kind of place from most on a route map, because it is not for visitors. It is a strictly protected reserve in the interior of Sao Paulo state, set aside for scientific research and conservation, and normal tourism is not allowed. It forms part of the Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves, the UNESCO listing that protects what is left of a forest that once covered the whole Brazilian coast and has been reduced to a small fraction of its former extent. Its role is to keep a piece of that forest intact, as a reference and a refuge for animals and plants that cannot survive elsewhere.
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Xitue Ecological Station comes up 62 km in. Next is Lauraceas State Park.
The Vale do Ribeira is one of the least developed regions of São Paulo state, a long valley of banana plantations, tea fields, small towns and thick forest, with a river that runs unimpeded to the sea. Because it was never heavily built up, it holds the largest remaining block of Atlantic Forest in Brazil, and the state parks of the area, among them Lauráceas, protect it. The name refers to the laurel family, which includes trees such as canelas and sassafras that grow tall in the damp forest, and which give the park its scent of spice when the wind moves the leaves.
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124 km in you reach Lauraceas State Park. Next is Pariquera - Abaixo State Park.
Between the Ribeira de Iguape river and the coast of southern São Paulo state, the land is low, green and wet, covered in a patchwork of banana plantations, rice fields, mangroves and patches of dense Atlantic Forest. The Pariquera-Abaixo State Park protects one of these patches, part of the larger network of Atlantic Forest reserves of southeast Brazil listed by UNESCO in 1999, a region that holds some of the most extensive surviving stretches of this once vast forest.
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Pariquera - Abaixo State Park, about halfway. Next is back through Lauraceas State Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lauraceas State Park write-up.
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back through Lauraceas State Park sits at 248 km, about halfway. Next is back through Xitue Ecological Station.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Xitue Ecological Station write-up.
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back through Xitue Ecological Station comes up 310 km in. Next is Alto Ribeira Touristic State Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Alto Ribeira Touristic State Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Alto Ribeira Touristic State Park closes the day.
Alto Ribeira Touristic State Park → Xitue Ecological Station is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Xitue Ecological Station → Lauraceas State Park is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lauraceas State Park → Pariquera - Abaixo State Park is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Pariquera - Abaixo State Park → back through Lauraceas State Park is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Lauraceas State Park → back through Xitue Ecological Station is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Xitue Ecological Station → Alto Ribeira Touristic State Park is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.