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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From Santiago Tepeyahualco it runs 171 km to Santiago Tepeyahualco; allow about 3 h of riding. It goes by way of Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan, Former college of San Francisco Javier in and back through Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,650 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
In the sixteenth century a Franciscan friar called Francisco de Tembleque looked at the dry highlands north-east of Mexico City, where villages had trouble finding clean water, and decided to bring it from springs on the slopes of a volcano forty-five kilometres away. The result, built between 1553 and about 1571 with the labour of local Indigenous communities, is one of the longest aqueduct systems of its age in the Americas, and it still stands on a high arcade of stone arches crossing a valley. The longest arcade runs for nearly a kilometre, and the tallest arch is about forty metres high, a slender, elegant bridge on thin piers, which is why you can see it for miles across the plain.
Read the complete Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic Syst write-up.
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Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic Syst is where the day begins. Next is Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan.
When the Aztecs came across Teotihuacan, centuries after it had been abandoned, they thought it must have been built by gods and named it the place where the gods were made. The city had reached its peak between about the first and sixth centuries, with perhaps well over a hundred thousand people, a grid of streets, apartment compounds and some of the largest pyramids in the Americas. The Pyramid of the Sun is a huge stepped mass, and the Pyramid of the Moon sits at the far end of the Avenue of the Dead, a long, broad processional road that makes the city feel grand even now.
Read the complete Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan write-up.
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Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Former college of San Francisco Javier in.
Tepotzotlán is a Pueblo Mágico just off the highway north of Mexico City, and its heart is a building that stops you in your tracks. The old Jesuit college of San Francisco Javier was a training centre for the order in New Spain, a place where novices learned theology and native languages before being sent out across the colony. When the Jesuits were expelled in 1767 the college passed to others, and today it houses the National Museum of the Viceroyalty, one of the best collections of colonial art in the country. It also forms part of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the silver road that ran north from the capital towards Santa Fe, inscribed by UNESCO in 2010.
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about 85 km into the recorded legs you reach Former college of San Francisco Javier in. Next is back through Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan write-up.
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back through Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan, late in the day. Next is Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic Syst.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic Syst write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic Syst. That is the ride.
Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic Syst → Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan → Former college of San Francisco Javier in is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Former college of San Francisco Javier in → back through Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan → Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic Syst is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.