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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From Rodeo it runs 303 km to Rodeo; allow about 5 h 39 of riding. On the way it passes Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a, Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien and back through Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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 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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Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a comes up about 80 km into the recorded legs. Next is Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien.
Hacienda chapels tell you a lot about colonial Mexico. They were built by landowners who controlled vast estates of cattle, crops or mines, and they served as places of worship for the owners, their families and the workers who lived and laboured on the estate. The Chapel of the Refugio, once part of a hacienda near Cuencamé in the state of Durango, is one of the sites included in the UNESCO listing of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the royal road that ran from Mexico City to Santa Fe and carried silver, goods, missionaries and settlers across the northern frontier for nearly three centuries.
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about 151 km into the recorded legs you reach Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien. Next is back through Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a, late in the day. Next is Chapel of the former hacienda of La Limpia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chapel of the former hacienda of La Limpia write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Chapel of the former hacienda of La Limpia. That is the ride.
Chapel of the former hacienda of La Limpia → Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a is 80 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a → Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien → back through Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a → Chapel of the former hacienda of La Limpia is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.