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 362 km round trip from Dalcahue - roughly 13 h 01 in the saddle. On the way it passes Church of Quinchao, Church of Chonchi, Churgh of Caguach and back through Church of Chonchi. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 33 km this is Chiloe Island Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chiloé is a damp, green island off the coast of southern Chile, and its wooden churches are its soul. The Church of Dalcahue stands on the waterfront of a small town on the eastern side of the island, facing the inner sea and the islands of the archipelago, with a long arcaded porch along its front and a tall tower rising above. Built entirely of wood, with shingles cut from native trees, it is one of sixteen churches inscribed in 2000 as the Churches of Chiloé.
Read the complete Church of Dalcahue write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Church of Dalcahue is where the day begins. Next is Church of Quinchao.
Chiloé is an island of wooden churches, and the one at Achao on Quinchao island is the oldest of the survivors. The Church of Santa María de Loreto was built in the eighteenth century by Jesuit missionaries and local carpenters, using native timber, cypress and larch, joined with wooden pegs and not a single iron nail. The facade has a long portico with a tower, and the interior, with its vaulted ceiling shaped like an upturned boat hull, shows the skill of the island's shipbuilders. The Churches of Chiloé are a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and this is one of the stars.
Read the complete Church of Quinchao write-up.
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Church of Quinchao comes up about 33 km into the recorded legs. Next is Church of Chonchi.
Chonchi is a small port town on the east coast of Chiloe, built on a steep hillside above the channel, and locals sometimes call it the city of three floors, because its streets climb in terraces from the waterfront to the plaza and the church above. The church of San Carlos de Borromeo, painted in warm yellow and red and crowned with a tall tower, was built in the nineteenth century, in the typical style of the island, and it dominates the square. Inside, it has the characteristic wooden columns and a ceiling like the hull of a ship, and the interior smells of old timber and wax.
Read the complete Church of Chonchi write-up.
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about 104 km into the recorded legs you reach Church of Chonchi. Next is Churgh of Caguach.
Chiloé is a green, rainy island off the coast of southern Chile, and its wooden churches are among the most remarkable buildings in South America. Jesuit missionaries began building them in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and after the Jesuits were expelled, local carpenters, used to building boats, carried on the work with larch, cypress and native timber, producing churches with shingled towers, porches and curved wooden ceilings like upturned hulls. UNESCO listed a group of sixteen of them in 2000, and the church on Caguach island is a famous one, linked to the pilgrimage of Jesús Nazareno that draws devotees each year at the end of August.
Read the complete Churgh of Caguach write-up.
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Churgh of Caguach, about halfway. Next is back through Church of Chonchi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Church of Chonchi write-up.
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back through Church of Chonchi sits at 177 km, about halfway. Next is back through Church of Quinchao.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Church of Quinchao write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Church of Quinchao comes up about 332 km into the recorded legs. Next is Church of Dalcahue.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Church of Dalcahue write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Church of Dalcahue closes the day.
Church of Dalcahue → Church of Quinchao is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of Quinchao → Church of Chonchi is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of Chonchi → Churgh of Caguach is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Churgh of Caguach → back through Church of Chonchi is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Church of Chonchi → back through Church of Quinchao is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Church of Quinchao → Church of Dalcahue is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.