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 Puçol it runs 529 km to Puçol; allow about 10 h 40 of riding. On the way it passes Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I, Abrigo de las Cañas II, Barranc de la falaguera- Abric II and Abrigo Chorradores. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Hannibal is the name that should come to mind as you ride toward this part of the Valencian coast. In 219 BC the Carthaginian general besieged the Iberian city of Saguntum, now Sagunto, just north of Puçol, and the eight-month siege that followed set off the Second Punic War. The city fell, and Rome declared war. The castle that crowns the hill at Sagunto today is a long, thin fortress with Roman, Moorish and medieval layers, and its Roman theatre has been restored to a degree that some people find controversial but nobody finds dull.
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Covacha Picayo- abrigo l is where the day begins. Next is Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I.
Alginet sits in the Ribera Alta, the flat, fertile plain south of Valencia where the Júcar river spreads out among orange groves, rice fields and small towns. To the west, the plain meets the first hills of the interior, low ridges of limestone covered in pine and scrub. The Barranc de la Falaguera, the ravine of the fern, cuts into these hills near Alginet, Alfarp and Benifaió.
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Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de las Cañas II.
The Macizo del Caroig is one of the emptiest corners of the Valencian region, a high, rugged limestone massif cut by deep gorges, covered with pine, scrub and rosemary, and dotted with a few small villages. Bicorp, Millares and Quesa lie on its edges, and in the ravines around them are dozens of rock shelters with prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. The Abrigo de las Cañas is one of them, and the area as a whole is among the richest in Spain for this kind of art.
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about 136 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de las Cañas II. Next is Barranc de la falaguera- Abric II.
South of Valencia the land flattens into the Ribera, a plain of orange and persimmon orchards cut by irrigation ditches, and then, quite suddenly, it crumples into low hills. Alginet and Alfarp sit on this edge, with the Albufera lagoon and its rice fields a little to the east. The Barranc de la Falaguera is a dry ravine in the dusty foothills, and Abric II is a small rock shelter recorded with a group of others nearby. These belong to the Mediterranean-arc rock art that UNESCO listed in 1998, and the Valencian interior holds a remarkable number of them.
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Barranc de la falaguera- Abric II, about halfway. Next is Abrigo Chorradores.
Chorro is the Spanish word for a jet or spout of water, and a chorrador is a place where water spouts, so the name of this shelter suggests a spring or a waterfall that once poured from the rock nearby. It would have been a precious thing in this dry country, and probably explains why the painters chose the spot. The Abrigo Chorradores lies about two kilometres from Millares, a village of fewer than six hundred people in the rugged hills of inland Valencia, and carries painting in the Levantine tradition, protected by UNESCO as part of the rock art of the Mediterranean basin in Spain. The ride links it with a site called Barranco del Cabezo del Moro.
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Abrigo Chorradores sits at 159 km, about halfway. Next is back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric II.
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Read the complete Barranc de la falaguera- Abric II write-up.
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back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric II comes up about 302 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abrigo de las Cañas II.
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about 377 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Abrigo de las Cañas II. Next is back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I write-up.
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back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I, late in the day. Next is Covacha Picayo- abrigo l.
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The route ends here after 529 km.
Covacha Picayo- abrigo l → Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I → Abrigo de las Cañas II is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de las Cañas II → Barranc de la falaguera- Abric II is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de la falaguera- Abric II → Abrigo Chorradores is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo Chorradores → back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric II is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric II → back through Abrigo de las Cañas II is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de las Cañas II → back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I → Covacha Picayo- abrigo l is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.