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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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From María it runs 244 km to María; allow about 4 h 12 of riding. The stops in between: Abrigo de Zaén II, Arco I and back through Abrigo de Zaén II. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Cueva Ambrosio belongs to the high, empty north of Almería province, on the dry plateau where Andalusia runs into Murcia, fifteen or so kilometres out of Vélez-Blanco. This is a landscape of broad, pale fields, almond and cereal farms, low limestone ridges and long skylines, with the pines of the Sierra María to the south and almost nothing built on the horizon.
Read the complete Cueva Ambrosio write-up.
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Cueva Ambrosio is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de Zaén II.
Zaén is a quiet valley in the north-western corner of the Murcia region, in the municipality of Moratalla, where pine-covered sierras close in and the streams run clear and cold. The Abrigo de Zaén II is one of several painted rock shelters here, and like the others it belongs to the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin, inscribed in 1998. Levantine art, found along the eastern side of the Iberian Peninsula, shows lively figures of humans and animals, often in scenes of hunting, gathering and, sometimes, conflict.
Read the complete Abrigo de Zaén II write-up.
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Abrigo de Zaén II comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is Arco I.
The Segura valley around Calasparra and Cieza has been a corridor for as long as people have walked through southern Spain, and the sites known as Arco I and Arco II are two of the shelters that belong to it. Cieza lies thirteen kilometres to the east, and it is a town with a long past: before the Christians took it in the thirteenth century it was Medina Siyâsa, a walled Islamic city of some importance, and the ruins of the old quarter have been excavated on the hill above the river. The town's museums are a useful stop, and Cieza has fuel, shops and cafés.
Read the complete Arco I write-up.
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about 122 km into the recorded legs you reach Arco I. Next is back through Abrigo de Zaén II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de Zaén II write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de Zaén II, late in the day. Next is Cueva Ambrosio.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva Ambrosio write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cueva Ambrosio. That is the ride.
Cueva Ambrosio → Abrigo de Zaén II is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Zaén II → Arco I is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Arco I → back through Abrigo de Zaén II is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de Zaén II → Cueva Ambrosio is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.