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 301 km round trip from El Nigromante - roughly 5 h 51 in the saddle. The stops in between: Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in, Nihuetaritsié and back through Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
On the high plateau of southern Zacatecas, close to the border with San Luis Potosí, the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro passed through a dry landscape of grassland, yucca and nopal cactus, linking Mexico City with the silver mines of the north. Haciendas grew up along the way, and the former Hacienda of San Nicolás de Quijas, with its chapel dedicated to San Nicolás Tolentino, is one of the sites inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2010 as part of the royal road. The chapel, with its simple façade, bell gable and adobe walls, stands in a small village surrounded by fields and open range.
Read the complete Chapel of San Nicolás Tolentino of the for write-up.
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Chapel of San Nicolás Tolentino of the for is where the day begins. Next is Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in.
Villa González Ortega is a small town on the high plateau of Zacatecas, in north central Mexico, and its church of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores is one of the sites recognised as part of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Inland Road. This was the great trade route that linked Mexico City with the silver mines of the north and eventually with Santa Fe in New Mexico, a journey of more than two thousand kilometres across deserts, mountains and plains. For almost three centuries, wagons, mule trains, soldiers, priests and settlers travelled this road, and the towns, churches, haciendas and bridges along it tell the story of the Spanish colonisation of the north. UNESCO listed the route in 2010.
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Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. Next is Nihuetaritsié.
High desert stretches away in every direction here, dotted with yucca, nopal cactus and mesquite, under a sky that seems twice as big as anywhere else. For centuries the Wixárika have made pilgrimages from their homeland in the Sierra Madre Occidental across these plains to Wirikuta, the sacred desert near Real de Catorce, stopping at springs, hills and other holy places along the way. This is one of those places, a spot that matters in their ritual geography even if, to an outsider, it looks like empty desert.
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about 143 km into the recorded legs you reach Nihuetaritsié. Next is back through Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in write-up.
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back through Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in, late in the day. Next is Chapel of San Nicolás Tolentino of the for.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chapel of San Nicolás Tolentino of the for write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Chapel of San Nicolás Tolentino of the for. That is the ride.
Chapel of San Nicolás Tolentino of the for → Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in → Nihuetaritsié is 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nihuetaritsié → back through Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in is 97 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in → Chapel of San Nicolás Tolentino of the for is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.