Why this ride
The stops in between: Intervales State Park, Alto Ribeira Touristic State Park and back through Intervales State Park. Much of it runs through woodland.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves and Alto Ribeira Touristic State Park
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 547 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 9 h 25
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves
The Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves are not one place but a scatter of about two dozen protected areas in the south of São Paulo state and the north of Paraná, recognised by UNESCO as a single World Heritage property because together they hold one of the biggest remaining tracts of Atlantic Forest. Poverty and forest have an odd relationship: the lack of big roads and industry is exactly what kept the trees standing.
Read the complete Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves is where the day begins. Next is Intervales State Park.
2. Intervales State Park
There is a place in the hills of south-east São Paulo state where you can hear a monkey you will probably never see. The muriqui, the largest primate in the Americas, lives in the Atlantic Forest of the Serra de Paranapiacaba, and Intervales State Park, one of the largest protected areas of that forest, is one of its refuges. The park covers more than forty thousand hectares of steep, misty hills, with giant ferns, bromeliads, orchids and trees hung with vines, and it is part of the Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves, listed by UNESCO in 1999. Toucans, tapirs and, rarely, jaguars share it.
Read the complete Intervales State Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Intervales State Park comes up about 114 km into the recorded legs. Next is Alto Ribeira Touristic State Park.
3. Alto Ribeira Touristic State Park
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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 275 km into the recorded legs you reach Alto Ribeira Touristic State Park. Next is back through Intervales State Park.
4. back through Intervales State Park
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Intervales State Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Intervales State Park, late in the day. Next is Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves.
5. Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves to Intervales State Park
Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves → Intervales State Park is 114 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Intervales State Park to Alto Ribeira Touristic State Park
Intervales State Park → Alto Ribeira Touristic State Park is 160 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Alto Ribeira Touristic State Park to back through Intervales State Park
Alto Ribeira Touristic State Park → back through Intervales State Park is 160 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Intervales State Park to Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves
back through Intervales State Park → Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves is 114 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.