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 313 km round trip from Camarasa - roughly 5 h 28 in the saddle. It goes by way of Monderes, El Remosillo, Muriecho E1 and back through El Remosillo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Camarasa is a small town beneath a big wall of water. The dam across the Noguera Pallaresa, built in the early twentieth century, holds back a long reservoir, the Pantà de Camarasa, in a dry, rocky corner of Lleida where the pre-Pyrenees fall toward the Ebro plain. The cliffs rise steep and ochre above the water, and in the folds of that rock, shelters hold painted scenes from long before there was a dam or even a town. The Balma del Pantà is one of the sites of the Levantine rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean, a tradition listed by UNESCO in 1998.
Read the complete Balma del Pantà write-up.
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Balma del Pantà is where the day begins. Next is Monderes.
The plain of Lleida is one of the great orchards of Spain, a flat, fertile basin of peach, pear and apple trees, irrigated by canals drawn from the Segre. Alfarràs, Algerri and Almenar are villages in this agricultural world, set among fields and ditches on the edge of Catalonia, where the green plain begins to rise towards the dry hills of the Montsec to the north. In spring the orchards bloom in pink and white, and in late summer the fruit lorries crowd the roads. It is not dramatic scenery, but it is a landscape built by water, and the canals, including the long Canal d'Urgell and the canal of Aragon and Catalonia, are the reason it exists.
Read the complete Monderes write-up.
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Monderes comes up about 48 km into the recorded legs. Next is El Remosillo.
If you ride north from Barbastro toward Graus, the Ésera river eventually forces its way through a ridge of limestone, and the result is the Congosto de Olvena, a short, deep gorge with the road squeezed between rock and water. Up on the cliffs around here are rock shelters with prehistoric paintings, and El Remosillo is one of the best known in this corner of Aragón, between Estadilla, Graus and Fonz.
Read the complete El Remosillo write-up.
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about 103 km into the recorded legs you reach El Remosillo. Next is Muriecho E1.
The Sierra de Guara is the first big step of the Pyrenean foothills, a tumbled mass of limestone that has been cut into canyons so deep and narrow that people come from all over Europe to descend them with ropes. Muriecho is a tiny place on the southern fringe of the range, in the Somontano, the land at the foot of the mountain, and E1 is one numbered shelter of several recorded around it. The paintings belong to the Mediterranean-arc rock art that UNESCO listed in 1998, and this region of Huesca has some of the best examples in Aragon.
Read the complete Muriecho E1 write-up.
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Muriecho E1, about halfway. Next is back through El Remosillo.
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Read the complete El Remosillo write-up.
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back through El Remosillo sits at 147 km, about halfway. Next is back through Monderes.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Monderes write-up.
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back through Monderes comes up about 264 km into the recorded legs. Next is Balma del Pantà.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Balma del Pantà write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Balma del Pantà closes the day.
Balma del Pantà → Monderes is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Monderes → El Remosillo is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
El Remosillo → Muriecho E1 is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Muriecho E1 → back through El Remosillo is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through El Remosillo → back through Monderes is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Monderes → Balma del Pantà is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.