CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 395 km round trip from Rodeo - roughly 7 h 41 in the saddle. It goes by way of Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza, Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a, Town of San Pedro del Gallo and Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Mapi. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
There is something quietly impressive about a chapel standing alone in the Chihuahuan desert. La Limpia was a hacienda in what is now the state of Durango, one of the big estates that organised life across northern Mexico from the seventeenth century onward. Haciendas were farms, ranches, sometimes mines and always small worlds, with owners, workers, a granary, stables and a chapel for religious life. Most have faded, and the chapel is often what survives when the rest has crumbled.
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Chapel of the former hacienda of La Limpia is where the day begins. 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.
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Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza comes up 47 km in. 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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94 km in you reach Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a. 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, about halfway. Next is Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Mapi.
Mapimí is a silver town that outlived its silver, and the architecture shows it. It sits in the Bolsón de Mapimí, the great desert basin of northern Durango and southern Chihuahua, where the horizon is flat, the air is dry and the sky is mostly empty. The town was founded in the sixteenth century to work mines in the hills nearby, and it grew rich enough to build a church, stone houses and a plaza. Later it was caught up in the fighting of the Mexican Revolution and the town's old buildings still carry the weight of those years.
Read the complete Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Mapi write-up.
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Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Mapi sits at 187 km, about halfway. Next is back through Town of San Pedro del Gallo.
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back through Town of San Pedro del Gallo comes up 234 km in. Next is back through Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a.
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281 km in you reach back through Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a. Next is back through Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza.
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back through Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza, late in the day. Next is Chapel of the former hacienda of La Limpia.
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Read the complete Chapel of the former hacienda of La Limpia write-up.
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The route ends here after 395 km.
Chapel of the former hacienda of La Limpia → 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 → Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Mapi is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Mapi → back through Town of San Pedro del Gallo is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through 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 → Chapel of the former hacienda of La Limpia is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.