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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163 km from Rodeo to Rodeo, about 3 h 02 of riding. The stops in between: Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza, Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a and back through Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
Read the complete Chapel of the former hacienda of La Limpia write-up.
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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.
Read the complete Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza write-up.
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Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza comes up about 57 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 80 km into the recorded legs you reach Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a. Next is back through Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza, 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 → 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 → 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.