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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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208 km from Letur to Letur, about 3 h 34 of riding. It goes by way of Cavidad V, Cueva del Gitano and back through Cavidad V. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Río Mundo is the Segura's most dramatic tributary, and it rises from a cave, the Cueva de los Chorros, near Riópar in the mountains of Albacete, in a burst of white water that bursts from the rock. By the time it passes Letur, thirty or so kilometres downstream, it has become a calm, green river in a steep-sided valley. The Barranco Segovia is a dry ravine on the south side of this area, some twelve kilometres from Letur and thirteen from Socovos, and the shelter named after it forms part of the rock art of the Mediterranean arc, protected by UNESCO since 1998. Its neighbours on the route, the Cueva de la Plata and the Cueva del Gitano, are in the same district.
Read the complete Barranco Segovia write-up.
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Barranco Segovia is where the day begins. Next is Cavidad V.
Nerpio is about as far from anywhere as you can get in mainland Spain. This village of around sixteen hundred people sits in the Sierra del Segura, in the far south-west of Albacete province, close to the borders of Murcia and Andalusia, and the surrounding hills are dotted with shelters containing prehistoric paintings. The numbered sites around here, Cavidad V among them, are part of the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin, and the Nerpio area is one of the richest concentrations of Levantine art in Spain, with hunting scenes, archers and animals painted thousands of years ago.
Read the complete Cavidad V write-up.
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Cavidad V comes up about 53 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva del Gitano.
Some places are remote on the map and remote in the gut, and the country around the Cueva del Gitano is both. It lies in the Sierra de Segura on the southern fringe of Albacete province, in the municipality of Nerpio, where the mountains of Albacete, Murcia, Jaén and Granada all run into one another. This is one of the richest areas for prehistoric rock art in Spain, with dozens of painted shelters along the valley of the Taibilla river and its side ravines, and the Cueva del Gitano is one of the smaller sites in that dense cluster. The art is faint, the walk can be rough, and the setting does most of the talking.
Read the complete Cueva del Gitano write-up.
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about 104 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva del Gitano. Next is back through Cavidad V.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cavidad V write-up.
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back through Cavidad V, late in the day. Next is Barranco Segovia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranco Segovia write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Barranco Segovia. That is the ride.
Barranco Segovia → Cavidad V is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cavidad V → Cueva del Gitano is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva del Gitano → back through Cavidad V is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cavidad V → Barranco Segovia is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.