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 341 km round trip from Cehegín - roughly 7 h 10 in the saddle. On the way it passes Gabar, Senda de la Cabra and back through Gabar. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Cehegín's old town rises in a tight cluster of ochre houses and church towers on a hill above the Argos river, in the northwest of Murcia, and it is one of the best-preserved historic centres in the region, with narrow streets, noble houses and churches dating back to the sixteenth century. The Cueva de las Conchas, the cave of the shells, lies less than a kilometre from the town, and it is part of the rich network of prehistoric sites in this area, included in the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean rock art.
Read the complete Cueva de las Conchas write-up.
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Cueva de las Conchas is where the day begins. Next is Gabar.
High in the north of Almería province, far from the beaches most people associate with the name, the Sierra de María rises in grey limestone above a plateau of almond orchards and cereal fields. Gabar is a point in the hills between the villages of María and Vélez-Blanco, part of a cluster of rock-art shelters in the Los Vélez district. This corner of Spain is famous for one painted figure in particular: the Indalo, a little stick man holding an arc over his head, found in the Cueva de los Letreros just outside Vélez-Blanco. It has become the emblem of the whole province, painted on doors and sold as a lucky charm, which is a remarkable career for a prehistoric doodle.
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Gabar comes up about 68 km into the recorded legs. Next is Senda de la Cabra.
Senda de la Cabra, the goat path, is the kind of name a mountain gives to the only way across a slope. It lies in the high country of the upper Segura, near Nerpio on the border of Albacete and Murcia provinces, where the Sierra de Segura folds into the Sierra de Alcaraz and the rivers run cold and clear. The painted shelters of the area, Gabar among them, are part of the large group of rock-art sites in the Nerpio district, which includes some of the best-known Levantine and schematic paintings in Spain.
Read the complete Senda de la Cabra write-up.
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about 163 km into the recorded legs you reach Senda de la Cabra. Next is back through Gabar.
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Read the complete Gabar write-up.
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back through Gabar, late in the day. Next is Cueva de las Conchas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de las Conchas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cueva de las Conchas. That is the ride.
Cueva de las Conchas → Gabar is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gabar → Senda de la Cabra is 95 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Senda de la Cabra → back through Gabar is 110 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Gabar → Cueva de las Conchas is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.