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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388 km from Cehegín to Cehegín, about 7 h 06 of riding. It goes by way of Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo, Queso and back through Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Cehegín, in the north-west of the Murcia region, is a town of two faces: a modern lower town, and an old town on a hill, with steep streets, noble houses and churches, declared a historic site. The Cueva de las Palomas, the cave of the doves, lies on the edge of the town, less than a kilometre from the centre, with the larger town of Caravaca de la Cruz about five kilometres away.
Read the complete Cueva de las Palamas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cueva de las Palamas is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo.
A rambla is a dry riverbed that only runs after storms, and the Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo is one of many that cut into the limestone hills around Nerpio, in the remote south-western corner of Albacete. In a rock shelter above it, prehistoric people left paintings in the Levantine style, small, lively figures of people and animals, and the site is one of the many shelters around Nerpio that belong to the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Visits are normally arranged through the village, and a guide will know which shelters are accessible and when the light is right for seeing the faded pigment.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo write-up.
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Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo comes up about 74 km into the recorded legs. Next is Queso.
The far north of Almería surprises people who think the province is all desert and greenhouses. Up here, around the villages of María and Vélez-Blanco, you are in the Sierra de María-Los Vélez natural park, a range of limestone mountains covered with pine and holm oak, with snow in winter and cool nights even in August. The site recorded on the map simply as Queso sits in the hills south of María, among the cluster of prehistoric shelters for which this corner of Andalusia is known.
Read the complete Queso write-up.
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about 194 km into the recorded legs you reach Queso. Next is back through Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo, late in the day. Next is Cueva de las Palamas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de las Palamas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cueva de las Palamas. That is the ride.
Cueva de las Palamas → Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo → Queso is 120 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Queso → back through Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo is 117 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo → Cueva de las Palamas is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.