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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A 353 km round trip from Mapimí - roughly 6 h 35 in the saddle. It goes by way of Town of San Pedro del Gallo, Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza, Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien and back through Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Mapimí is a silver town that outlived its silver, and the architecture shows it. It sits in the Bolsón de Mapimí, the great desert basin of northern Durango and southern Chihuahua, where the horizon is flat, the air is dry and the sky is mostly empty. The town was founded in the sixteenth century to work mines in the hills nearby, and it grew rich enough to build a church, stone houses and a plaza. Later it was caught up in the fighting of the Mexican Revolution and the town's old buildings still carry the weight of those years.
Read the complete Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Mapi write-up.
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Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Mapi is where the day begins. Next is Town of San Pedro del Gallo.
San Pedro del Gallo is a very small town in a very big landscape, and that is precisely its appeal. Fewer than a thousand people live here, in the high desert of northern Durango, among dry plains, low mountains and endless sky, and the town grew up as a stop on the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the royal road that linked Mexico City with the northern frontier and Santa Fe. San Pedro del Gallo is one of the places included in the UNESCO listing of the Camino Real, with its church, simple adobe houses and the quiet atmosphere of a place where time moves slowly.
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Town of San Pedro del Gallo comes up about 79 km into the recorded legs. Next is Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza.
Nazas is a small town on the river of the same name in the north of the state of Durango, where the Sierra Madre Occidental gives way to the high, dry basins of the Mexican interior. It sits on the route of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the old royal road that ran north from Mexico City to Santa Fe, carrying silver, mercury, goods and settlers for nearly three centuries. A group of its historic buildings, around the main square and church, was included in the UNESCO listing of the Camino Real in 2010.
Read the complete Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza write-up.
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about 129 km into the recorded legs you reach Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza. Next is Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien.
Hacienda chapels tell you a lot about colonial Mexico. They were built by landowners who controlled vast estates of cattle, crops or mines, and they served as places of worship for the owners, their families and the workers who lived and laboured on the estate. The Chapel of the Refugio, once part of a hacienda near Cuencamé in the state of Durango, is one of the sites included in the UNESCO listing of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the royal road that ran from Mexico City to Santa Fe and carried silver, goods, missionaries and settlers across the northern frontier for nearly three centuries.
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Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien, about halfway. Next is back through Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza sits at 239 km, about halfway. Next is back through Town of San Pedro del Gallo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Town of San Pedro del Gallo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Town of San Pedro del Gallo comes up about 275 km into the recorded legs. Next is Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Mapi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Mapi write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Mapi closes the day.
Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Mapi → Town of San Pedro del Gallo is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Town of San Pedro del Gallo → Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza → Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien → back through Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza → back through Town of San Pedro del Gallo is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Town of San Pedro del Gallo → Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Mapi is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.