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 123 km round trip from Trancoso - roughly 2 h 21 in the saddle. On the way it passes Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal, Cacai Mutijé and back through Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The nearest settlements are tiny, such as Piedra Gorda and Cerrito de la Cruz, and the most reliable town for fuel and supplies is Trancoso, a fast-growing town of about fourteen thousand, some fourteen kilometres away, so it makes sense to fill the tank there before wandering the back roads.
Read the complete Cave of Ávalos write-up.
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Cave of Ávalos is where the day begins. Next is Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal.
Zacatecas was built on silver, and the town next to it, Guadalupe, was built on faith. In the middle of the eighteenth century a Franciscan college was founded here to train missionaries who would go north into the unconquered country, and its big church, cloisters and long galleries still stand on the edge of the city, now serving as a museum of colonial art with paintings, carved altarpieces and religious objects. The college once sent friars as far as Texas and California.
Read the complete Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal write-up.
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Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cacai Mutijé.
Out here on the high plateau west of Zacatecas the land is all wide sky, nopal, mesquite and red-brown earth, and it takes a while to understand that you are standing on a pilgrimage path. Cacai Mutijé is one of the sacred places of the Wixárika, the people outsiders long called Huichol, on the route their pilgrims follow from their home communities in the Sierra Madre Occidental across Zacatecas to Wirikuta, the desert of San Luis Potosí where they gather hikuri, the peyote cactus, and where in their cosmology the sun was born. The path has been walked for centuries and was recognised by UNESCO only recently, which tells you something about how long the rest of the world took to notice.
Read the complete Cacai Mutijé write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 61 km into the recorded legs you reach Cacai Mutijé. Next is back through Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal, late in the day. Next is Cave of Ávalos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cave of Ávalos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cave of Ávalos. That is the ride.
Cave of Ávalos → Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal → Cacai Mutijé is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cacai Mutijé → back through Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal → Cave of Ávalos is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.