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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137 km from El Nigromante to El Nigromante, about 2 h 49 of riding. It goes by way of Town of Pinos, Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of and back through Town of Pinos. 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.
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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 27 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 68 km into the recorded legs you reach 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.
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 → Town of Pinos is 27 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 → 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.