CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 466 km round trip from Esfuerzos Unidos - roughly 9 h 40 in the saddle. On the way it passes Chapel of the former hacienda of La Inmacu, Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza, Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a and Town of San Pedro del Gallo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
It is a land of long flat valleys, mesquite and thorn scrub, adobe villages, dry creek beds and low blue ranges on the horizon, with the Sierra Madre Occidental rising to the west.
Read the complete Cave of Las Mulas de Molino write-up.
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Cave of Las Mulas de Molino is where the day begins. Next is Chapel of the former hacienda of La Inmacu.
Out in the dry heart of northern Mexico, among the creosote bushes and distant mountains of the Chihuahuan Desert, stand the ruins and chapels of old haciendas, great estates that shaped the history of the country. The chapel at the former Hacienda de la Inmaculada Concepción in Durango is one of them, a small whitewashed church standing in an empty landscape, with a bell tower and a simple interior built for the workers who lived and laboured on the estate. A hacienda was a world of its own, with a main house, a granary, a store, stables, workers' homes and a chapel, and the owners often held enormous areas, producing cattle, cotton, maize or minerals.
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Chapel of the former hacienda of La Inmacu comes up 50 km in. Next is Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza.
Nazas is a small town on the river of the same name in the north of the state of Durango, where the Sierra Madre Occidental gives way to the high, dry basins of the Mexican interior. It sits on the route of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the old royal road that ran north from Mexico City to Santa Fe, carrying silver, mercury, goods and settlers for nearly three centuries. A group of its historic buildings, around the main square and church, was included in the UNESCO listing of the Camino Real in 2010.
Read the complete Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza write-up.
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100 km in you reach Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza. Next is Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a.
For nearly three centuries, the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro was the royal road linking Mexico City with Santa Fe in New Mexico, a route some 2,600 kilometres long that carried silver south and settlers, missionaries, soldiers and goods north. In the state of Durango, it crossed a vast semi-desert of scrub, cactus and rocky hills, and the stretch between Nazas and San Pedro del Gallo is one of the sections inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2010. Along the road, haciendas, chapels and waystations grew up wherever water could be found.
Read the complete Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a write-up.
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Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a, about halfway. Next is Town of San Pedro del Gallo.
San Pedro del Gallo is a very small town in a very big landscape, and that is precisely its appeal. Fewer than a thousand people live here, in the high desert of northern Durango, among dry plains, low mountains and endless sky, and the town grew up as a stop on the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the royal road that linked Mexico City with the northern frontier and Santa Fe. San Pedro del Gallo is one of the places included in the UNESCO listing of the Camino Real, with its church, simple adobe houses and the quiet atmosphere of a place where time moves slowly.
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Town of San Pedro del Gallo sits at 200 km, about halfway. Next is back through Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a.
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Read the complete Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a write-up.
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back through Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a comes up 249 km in. Next is back through Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza.
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Read the complete Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza write-up.
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299 km in you reach back through Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza. Next is back through Chapel of the former hacienda of La Inmacu.
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Read the complete Chapel of the former hacienda of La Inmacu write-up.
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back through Chapel of the former hacienda of La Inmacu, late in the day. Next is Cave of Las Mulas de Molino.
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Read the complete Cave of Las Mulas de Molino write-up.
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The route ends here after 466 km.
Cave of Las Mulas de Molino → Chapel of the former hacienda of La Inmacu is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Chapel of the former hacienda of La Inmacu → Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza → Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a → Town of San Pedro del Gallo is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Town of San Pedro del Gallo → back through Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a → back through Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza → back through Chapel of the former hacienda of La Inmacu is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chapel of the former hacienda of La Inmacu → Cave of Las Mulas de Molino is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.