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 205 km round trip from Magdalena Contreras - roughly 4 h 27 in the saddle. On the way it passes Xochimilco 3, Temple and Former Convent of Saint William, Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t and back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint William. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The main campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, known as Ciudad Universitaria, is one of the great architectural achievements of the twentieth century. Built between 1949 and 1952 on a field of lava from the ancient eruption of the Xitle volcano, in the south of Mexico City, it brought together dozens of architects, engineers and artists to create a modern campus that would blend international modernism with Mexican traditions. Its most famous building is the Central Library, a tall block covered entirely in a mosaic by Juan O'Gorman, depicting the history of Mexico from pre-Hispanic times to the modern era. UNESCO listed the campus in 2007.
Read the complete Central University City Campus of the Univ write-up.
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Central University City Campus of the Univ is where the day begins. Next is Xochimilco 3.
San Andrés Mixquic sits on the southeastern edge of Mexico City, in the borough of Tláhuac, and it feels like a village despite being part of one of the largest cities on earth. It is famous throughout Mexico for its Day of the Dead celebrations, when the cemetery around the church of San Andrés fills with marigolds, candles and families who keep vigil through the night of 2 November, and the whole town turns into a festival of altars, music and food. The rest of the year, Mixquic is a quiet place of canals, chinampas and vegetable fields.
Read the complete Xochimilco 3 write-up.
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Xochimilco 3 comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Temple and Former Convent of Saint William.
Totolapan is a small town on the northern slopes of the Sierra de Chichinautzin, in the state of Morelos, and its Augustinian convent of San Guillermo is one of the fourteen sixteenth-century monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl that UNESCO listed in 1994. The friars who came to Mexico after the conquest built these fortress-like complexes to convert the indigenous population, with huge walled atriums where crowds could gather for open-air masses, chapels at the corners for processions, and austere churches with thick walls. Totolapan's convent is relatively modest, but its simplicity and setting give it a special charm.
Read the complete Temple and Former Convent of Saint William write-up.
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about 74 km into the recorded legs you reach Temple and Former Convent of Saint William. Next is Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t.
Ocuituco claims the first Augustinian convent built in Mexico, begun in the 1530s on the southern slopes of Popocatépetl, and the church of Santiago Apóstol with its cloister belongs to the same World Heritage group of early convents around the volcano as Cuernavaca's cathedral. Its cloister keeps a rare carved stone fountain, and the convent's thick walls and simple lines show the early, almost defensive style of the first missions.
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Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t, about halfway. Next is back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint William.
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Read the complete Temple and Former Convent of Saint William write-up.
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back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint William sits at 131 km, about halfway. Next is back through Xochimilco 3.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Xochimilco 3 write-up.
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back through Xochimilco 3 comes up about 171 km into the recorded legs. Next is Central University City Campus of the Univ.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Central University City Campus of the Univ write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Central University City Campus of the Univ closes the day.
Central University City Campus of the Univ → Xochimilco 3 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Xochimilco 3 → Temple and Former Convent of Saint William is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint William → Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t → back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint William is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint William → back through Xochimilco 3 is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Xochimilco 3 → Central University City Campus of the Univ is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.