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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313 km from Puçol to Puçol, about 6 h 25 of riding. The stops in between: Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I, Abrigo de Vicent and back through Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
69 km on Covacha del Barranc del Diable → Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I.
Puçol is a modest, busy town on the coast north of Valencia, famous locally for its orange groves, its beach and its long sandy shore. Inland from it the land rises quickly into the Sierra Calderona, a low range of pine, rosemary and dry gullies. The Barranc del Diable, the Devil's Ravine, is one of many small ravines cut into the foothills, and the covacha, a shallow cave, holds a few rock paintings from the Levantine tradition. These belong to the Mediterranean-arc rock art UNESCO listed in 1998, and they are typically small, red and easy to miss unless a guide shows you where to look.
Read the complete Covacha del Barranc del Diable write-up.
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Covacha del Barranc del Diable is where the day begins. Next is Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I.
West of Valencia, the river Turia leaves the mountains through a series of deep gorges, and around the villages of Gestalgar, Sot de Chera and Chulilla, the landscape turns dramatic: limestone cliffs, pine-covered slopes and the river winding green below. In a side ravine near Gestalgar, the Barranco de las Colochas shelters a handful of painted panels that UNESCO counts among the Mediterranean rock art of Iberia. The figures are faint, but the setting is worth the effort on its own.
Read the complete Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I comes up about 69 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de Vicent.
For most of its length, the Júcar river in Valencia province runs through gorges, reservoirs and dry hills, and in the days before roads, the way to bring timber from the mountains to the coast was to float it. The woodsmen who did this were called gancheros, after the long hooked poles they used to push logs through rapids, and for centuries they took pine trunks down the Júcar and the Cabriel in spring floods, riding the logs and breaking jams. That trade ended in the twentieth century, but their memory is kept alive in villages like Millares and Bicorp. The shelter named for a man, Abrigo de Vicent, lies about five and a half kilometres from Bicorp, and carries painting in the Levantine tradition, protected by UNESCO as part of the rock art of the Mediterranean basin in Spain.
Read the complete Abrigo de Vicent write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 155 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de Vicent. Next is back through Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I, late in the day. Next is Covacha del Barranc del Diable.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Covacha del Barranc del Diable write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Covacha del Barranc del Diable. That is the ride.
Covacha del Barranc del Diable → Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I → Abrigo de Vicent is 86 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Vicent → back through Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I → Covacha del Barranc del Diable is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.