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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428 km from Mapimí to Mapimí, about 8 h 09 of riding. The stops in between: Town of San Pedro del Gallo, Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a, Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien and Temples in the town of Cuencamé and Cristo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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.
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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 Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a.
For nearly three centuries, the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro was the royal road linking Mexico City with Santa Fe in New Mexico, a route some 2,600 kilometres long that carried silver south and settlers, missionaries, soldiers and goods north. In the state of Durango, it crossed a vast semi-desert of scrub, cactus and rocky hills, and the stretch between Nazas and San Pedro del Gallo is one of the sections inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2010. Along the road, haciendas, chapels and waystations grew up wherever water could be found.
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about 115 km into the recorded legs you reach Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a. 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 Temples in the town of Cuencamé and Cristo.
Cuencamé is a small town in the semi-desert of eastern Durango, on the old Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, and it is known throughout northern Mexico for its devotion to the Cristo de Mapimí, a crucifix that is venerated in a sanctuary in the town. The image, according to tradition, was brought here in the colonial period after miracles attributed to it, and each year pilgrims arrive from across the region to pray and give thanks. The town's temples, including the parish church and the sanctuary, are part of the UNESCO listing of the Camino Real. They are simple, solid buildings, with thick walls designed to resist the heat, and their interiors are filled with offerings, candles and the quiet murmur of prayer.
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Temples in the town of Cuencamé and Cristo sits at 208 km, about halfway. Next is back through Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien.
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back through Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien comes up about 242 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a.
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about 310 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a. Next is back through Town of San Pedro del Gallo.
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back through Town of San Pedro del Gallo, late in the day. Next is Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Mapi.
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Read the complete Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Mapi write-up.
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The route ends here after 428 km.
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 → Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a → Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien → Temples in the town of Cuencamé and Cristo is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temples in the town of Cuencamé and Cristo → back through Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien → back through Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a → back through Town of San Pedro del Gallo is 38 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.