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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303 km from Santiago Tepeyahualco to Santiago Tepeyahualco, about 4 h 39 of riding. It goes by way of Former college of San Francisco Javier in, Xochimilco 2 and back through Former college of San Francisco Javier in. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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 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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Former college of San Francisco Javier in comes up about 82 km into the recorded legs. Next is Xochimilco 2.
Before the Spanish arrived, the Valley of Mexico was a land of lakes, and the people who lived around them developed an ingenious way to farm the water. They built chinampas, artificial islands of mud and vegetation anchored by willow trees, separated by canals, and grew maize, beans, squash and flowers on them. In Xochimilco, in the south of Mexico City, a remnant of that world survives, with a network of canals and chinampas that is still farmed and navigated today. It is part of the UNESCO listing of the Historic Centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco, and the most famous image of the area is the trajinera, a brightly painted flat-bottomed boat that carries visitors along the canals, often accompanied by mariachi bands and floating food stalls.
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about 150 km into the recorded legs you reach Xochimilco 2. Next is back through Former college of San Francisco Javier in.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Former college of San Francisco Javier in, 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 → Former college of San Francisco Javier in is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Former college of San Francisco Javier in → Xochimilco 2 is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Xochimilco 2 → back through Former college of San Francisco Javier in is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Former college of San Francisco Javier in → Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic Syst is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.