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 309 km round trip from El Nigromante - roughly 6 h 35 in the saddle. On the way it passes Town of Pinos, Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of, Huahuatsari and Tatei Matiniere. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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.
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Chapel of San Nicolás Tolentino of the for is where the day begins. Next is Town of Pinos.
Pinos was a silver town before most of Mexico had towns at all. Founded in the late sixteenth century, after silver was found in the hills, it grew into an important mining centre on the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the royal road that ran north from Mexico City toward Santa Fe in New Mexico, carrying silver south and supplies and settlers north. The town is part of the UNESCO listing of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, and it is also a designated Pueblo Mágico, with colonial churches, cobbled streets and old mining buildings.
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Town of Pinos comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of.
The high plateau of central Mexico, known as the Mesa Central, is a landscape of dry grass, mesquite, nopal cactus and low volcanic hills, and the village of Noria de Angeles, in the state of Zacatecas, sits in the middle of it, about eight kilometres from Villa Gonzalez Ortega.
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about 69 km into the recorded legs you reach Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of. Next is Huahuatsari.
Every year, Wixárika pilgrims, the people often called Huichol, walk or travel hundreds of kilometres from their homeland in the Sierra Madre Occidental to Wirikuta, a sacred desert in San Luis Potosí, where they gather peyote and make offerings at sacred places along the way. Huahuatsari is one of the sacred sites on this route, in the high desert near Villa de Ramos. The pilgrimage route has been placed on Mexico's tentative list for World Heritage, and the sites along it are places of prayer, not tourist attractions.
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Huahuatsari, about halfway. Next is Tatei Matiniere.
Every year, Wixárika pilgrims walk or drive hundreds of kilometres from their homeland in the Sierra Madre Occidental to the desert of Wirikuta in San Luis Potosí, where they collect peyote, the sacred cactus they call hikuri, and perform ceremonies to renew the world. Along the way, they stop at sacred places, and Tatei Matinieri, a group of springs in the semi-desert of the Altiplano, is one of the most important. The Wixárika route through these sacred sites was listed by UNESCO in 2025, recognising a living tradition that goes back centuries.
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Tatei Matiniere sits at 166 km, about halfway. Next is back through Huahuatsari.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Huahuatsari comes up about 190 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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about 240 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of. Next is back through Town of Pinos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Town of Pinos, late in the day. Next is Chapel of San Nicolás Tolentino of the for.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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The route ends here after 309 km.
Chapel of San Nicolás Tolentino of the for → Town of Pinos is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Town of Pinos → Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of → Huahuatsari is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Huahuatsari → Tatei Matiniere is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tatei Matiniere → back through Huahuatsari is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Huahuatsari → back through Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of → back through Town of Pinos is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Town of Pinos → Chapel of San Nicolás Tolentino of the for is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.