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 168 km round trip from Nerpio - roughly 4 h 29 in the saddle. On the way it passes Cavidad V, Las Covachicas and back through Cavidad V. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Canalejas de Abajo is a name on the map rather than a place with a church and a bar: a scattering of farms and old cortijos in the upper valley of the Taibilla river, south of Nerpio, in the mountains where Albacete, Jaén and Granada meet. The Sierra de Segura and the Sierra de las Cabras rise all around, high limestone country cut by deep valleys, and the region is known among archaeologists for its painted rock shelters. The Abrigo del Sabinar and others along the same valley hold some of the most important prehistoric paintings of the Spanish south east, drawn on the soft overhangs that the river and the wind have shaped.
Read the complete Canalejas de Abajo write-up.
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Canalejas de Abajo 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 19 km into the recorded legs. Next is Las Covachicas.
The Sierra del Segura, in the far south of Albacete province, is a world of its own: deep valleys, rivers lined with poplars, terraces of olive and almond trees, and white villages that look more Andalusian than Castilian. Letur is one of the most beautiful, a village of Moorish origin built on a rock above a stream, with narrow alleys, arches and gardens watered by old irrigation channels. Las Covachicas, a group of shelters, lies in the hills nearby, between Letur, Socovos and Férez.
Read the complete Las Covachicas write-up.
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about 82 km into the recorded legs you reach Las Covachicas. 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 Canalejas de Abajo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Canalejas de Abajo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Canalejas de Abajo. That is the ride.
Canalejas de Abajo → Cavidad V is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cavidad V → Las Covachicas is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Las Covachicas → back through Cavidad V is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cavidad V → Canalejas de Abajo is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.