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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199 km from Nerpio to Nerpio, about 5 h 17 of riding. On the way it passes Las Cabritas, Diosa madre and back through Las Cabritas. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Very few people get here. The Cañaica del Calar lies in the far north-west of the region of Murcia, near the border with Albacete and Andalusia, in a wild landscape of limestone plateaus, pine forests and deep valleys around Moratalla and Nerpio. The calar is the local word for a limestone plateau, and the rock shelters on its edges hold prehistoric paintings in the Levantine style, part of the World Heritage rock art of the Mediterranean. The area around Nerpio is one of the richest in Spain for rock art.
Read the complete Cañaica del Calar l write-up.
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Cañaica del Calar l is where the day begins. Next is Las Cabritas.
Nerpio sits at the edge of the world, or at least at the edge of Albacete province, a small village in the Sierra de Taibilla close to where Murcia, Granada and Jaén come together. Its walnuts are famous, grown in old orchards along the river, and the hills around it hold some of the finest Levantine rock art in Spain. Las Cabritas, the little goats, is a shelter just over a kilometre from the village, named after the animals painted on its walls, and it is part of the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin.
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Las Cabritas comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Diosa madre.
Some places on a map feel remote; this one actually is. The point named Diosa Madre, mother goddess, lies in the mountains of the Sierra de Segura, in the far southwest of Albacete province, roughly sixteen kilometres from Yeste and not far from the border with Jaén. The mountains themselves are the real experience.
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about 123 km into the recorded legs you reach Diosa madre. Next is back through Las Cabritas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Las Cabritas write-up.
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back through Las Cabritas, late in the day. Next is Cañaica del Calar l.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cañaica del Calar l write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cañaica del Calar l. That is the ride.
Cañaica del Calar l → Las Cabritas is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Las Cabritas → Diosa madre is 98 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Diosa madre → back through Las Cabritas is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Las Cabritas → Cañaica del Calar l is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.