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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450 km from Trancoso to Trancoso, about 8 h 35 of riding. The stops in between: Tatei Nihuetucame, Cupuri Mutiu, Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir and Cuyetsarie. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 Tatei Nihuetucame.
Zacatecas sits high in the Mexican north, around 2,400 metres above the sea, in a bowl of red hills that were once a mountain of silver. The Spanish arrived in the 1540s after local people showed them silver outcrops, and within a few decades the city was one of the richest in the New World, its wealth carried south on the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Road of the Interior Land that ran all the way to Santa Fe. The old centre, with its pink-stone cathedral, narrow stepped lanes and colonial mansions, is inscribed as World Heritage, and the road itself is listed too.
Read the complete Tatei Nihuetucame write-up.
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Tatei Nihuetucame comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cupuri Mutiu.
Jerez de García Salinas is the reason most riders end up here, and it is a happy accident if they do. This colonial town in the west of Zacatecas state, a couple of kilometres from the point, is a Pueblo Mágico with a leafy plaza, an ornate little theatre, the Teatro Hinojosa, said to be modelled on Ford's Theatre in Washington, and the childhood home of Ramón López Velarde, the poet whose verses about provincial Mexico every schoolchild there knows. Jerez is a ranchero town at heart, with saddle makers, boot shops and men in hats, and the Easter fair with its horses and music draws people from across the region.
Read the complete Cupuri Mutiu write-up.
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about 93 km into the recorded legs you reach Cupuri Mutiu. Next is Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir.
West of Jerez, in Zacatecas, the land starts to fold into the long ridges of the Sierra Madre Occidental, and somewhere in these hills runs the path that Wixárika pilgrims follow from their homeland in the mountains of Jalisco and Nayarit toward Wirikuta, their sacred desert far to the east. The route, listed by UNESCO in 2025, is not a road in the usual sense but a chain of sacred places, springs, hills and caves where the pilgrims stop to pray, leave offerings and remember the journey of their ancestors, who according to tradition walked this way at the beginning of the world.
Read the complete Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir write-up.
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Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir, about halfway. Next is Cuyetsarie.
This is a point on the high plateau where Zacatecas, Jalisco and Durango meet, in the dry country at the edge of the northern Sierra Madre Occidental. The names of the rides, Cuyetsarie, Cacai Mutijé and Xurahue Muyaca, belong to the Wixárika people, whom outsiders call the Huichol, and refer to places in their sacred geography. Wixárika communities live in the rugged canyons of Mezquitic and Huejuquilla and the neighbouring sierra, and they keep a living tradition in which certain springs, hills and rocks are sites of offering, prayer and pilgrimage.
Read the complete Cuyetsarie write-up.
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Cuyetsarie sits at 192 km, about halfway. Next is back through Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir comes up about 322 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Cupuri Mutiu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cupuri Mutiu write-up.
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about 358 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Cupuri Mutiu. Next is back through Tatei Nihuetucame.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tatei Nihuetucame write-up.
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back through Tatei Nihuetucame, late in the day. Next is Cave of Ávalos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cave of Ávalos write-up.
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The route ends here after 450 km.
Cave of Ávalos → Tatei Nihuetucame is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tatei Nihuetucame → Cupuri Mutiu is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cupuri Mutiu → Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir → Cuyetsarie is 96 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cuyetsarie → back through Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir is 96 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir → back through Cupuri Mutiu is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cupuri Mutiu → back through Tatei Nihuetucame is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tatei Nihuetucame → Cave of Ávalos is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.