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 183 km round trip from Alacón - roughly 3 h 31 in the saddle. The stops in between: Recodo de los Chaparros II, La Coquinera and back through Recodo de los Chaparros II. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The name means the smoky little shelter, and it fits: a modest overhang darkened by soot, one of the rock art sites around Alacón in the Río Martín Cultural Park in Teruel province. The Martín river has carved canyons through limestone here, and its walls hold dozens of painted panels, from naturalistic Levantine hunting scenes to the later schematic style of stick figures and symbols. Alacón alone has several groups of shelters, and the park has an interpretation centre in the area to explain them.
Read the complete Covacho Ahumado write-up.
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Covacho Ahumado is where the day begins. Next is Recodo de los Chaparros II.
The Río Martín cuts a deep, narrow canyon through the dry limestone of the Bajo Aragón, in the province of Teruel, and the Recodo de los Chaparros, whose name means roughly the bend of the dwarf oaks, sits on that river a few kilometres from Albalate del Arzobispo. The land is rolling and almost treeless, covered in olive groves, almond trees and pale rocky fields, and it can feel like a different planet from the green north of Spain.
Read the complete Recodo de los Chaparros II write-up.
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Recodo de los Chaparros II comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is La Coquinera.
You reach La Coquinera through some of the emptiest country in Spain. The rock shelter lies in the hills of the Río Martín Cultural Park, in the triangle between Oliete, Estercuel and Alacón, where the Martín river and its side ravines have sliced the Teruel plateau into terraces, cliffs and narrow gorges. The paintings here belong to the same Mediterranean tradition as the dozens of other panels in the park, figures of animals and people in ochre red, small enough that you have to stand close and let your eyes adjust before they emerge from the stone.
Read the complete La Coquinera write-up.
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about 89 km into the recorded legs you reach La Coquinera. Next is back through Recodo de los Chaparros II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Recodo de los Chaparros II write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Recodo de los Chaparros II, late in the day. Next is Covacho Ahumado.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Covacho Ahumado write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Covacho Ahumado. That is the ride.
Covacho Ahumado → Recodo de los Chaparros II is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Recodo de los Chaparros II → La Coquinera is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Coquinera → back through Recodo de los Chaparros II is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Recodo de los Chaparros II → Covacho Ahumado is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.