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 497 km to Puçol; allow about 10 h 35 of riding. It goes by way of Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I, Abrigo de las Cañas II, Cova de la Petxina and Barranc de la Penya Blanca. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
Read the complete Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I write-up.
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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 Cova de la Petxina.
Bellús is a small village in the valley of the Albaida river in southern Valencia, just upstream from where the river flows into a reservoir and then joins the Júcar. The old village was partly flooded by the reservoir, and the new one stands on higher ground. The Cova de la Petxina, the cave of the shell, is in the hills near the village, close to Guadasequies and Genovés.
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Cova de la Petxina, about halfway. Next is Barranc de la Penya Blanca.
Planes is a small village in the hills of the Comtat in northern Alicante province, crowned by a castle and looking out over a valley of olive and cherry orchards. The Barranc de la Penya Blanca, the ravine of the white rock, lies close by, among the folded limestone ridges between Planes, Benimarfull and the reservoir at Beniarrés.
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Barranc de la Penya Blanca sits at 172 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cova de la Petxina.
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Read the complete Cova de la Petxina write-up.
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back through Cova de la Petxina comes up about 280 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abrigo de las Cañas II.
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Read the complete Abrigo de las Cañas II write-up.
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about 345 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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Read the complete Covacha Picayo- abrigo l write-up.
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The route ends here after 497 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 → Cova de la Petxina is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova de la Petxina → Barranc de la Penya Blanca is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de la Penya Blanca → back through Cova de la Petxina is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cova de la Petxina → back through Abrigo de las Cañas II is 65 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 75 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.