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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380 km from Bárcabo to Bárcabo, about 6 h 43 of riding. On the way it passes Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña, Chaves I, Forau del Cocho and back through Chaves I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The Sierra de Guara is the first big wrinkle of the Pyrenees north of Huesca, a block of limestone sliced into deep canyons by rivers like the Vero, the Alcanadre and the Mascún, and the Cueva de Pacencia sits in that broken country. The shelters along the Vero hold prehistoric paintings in several styles, from the lively Levantine hunters to much more abstract schematic signs, and they are part of the UNESCO Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The area is managed as the Río Vero Cultural Park, with an interpretation centre in Colungo and guided visits to the best-preserved shelters, which is the sensible way to see them.
Read the complete Cueva de Pacencia write-up.
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Cueva de Pacencia is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña.
Just north of Huesca, where the flat cereal land of the Hoya suddenly rears up into the first limestone walls of the Pre-Pyrenees, lies the little village of Nueno and, above it, the rock shelter named after Santa Eulalia de la Peña. This is the southern edge of the Sierra de Guara country, a landscape of gorges, conglomerate cliffs and scrub where griffon vultures ride the thermals and the light comes hard off pale stone.
Read the complete Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña write-up.
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Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña comes up about 81 km into the recorded legs. Next is Chaves I.
The Cueva de Chaves, in the foothills of the Sierra de Guara in Huesca, was one of the most important Neolithic sites in the Iberian Peninsula, with deposits showing some of the earliest farming and herding in north-eastern Spain. In 2007, in an act that caused outrage, the landowner bulldozed the cave's floor deposits, destroying much of the archaeological record, and the case went to court. Rock art shelters in the area, including Chaves I and others in the Vero river valley, survive and are part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing, with paintings ranging from Palaeolithic to schematic art.
Read the complete Chaves I write-up.
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about 139 km into the recorded legs you reach Chaves I. Next is Forau del Cocho.
South of Huesca the land opens out. The Pyrenees are behind you, a snowy line on a clear day, and ahead stretches the gently rolling cereal country that eventually turns into the dry steppes of Los Monegros. Forau del Cocho lies in this transitional landscape, between Torres de Barbués, Almuniente and the outskirts of Huesca itself, a place where the only relief is the occasional low ridge or gully cut into soft rock.
Read the complete Forau del Cocho write-up.
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Forau del Cocho, about halfway. Next is back through Chaves I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chaves I write-up.
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back through Chaves I sits at 143 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña write-up.
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back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña comes up about 296 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva de Pacencia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de Pacencia write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cueva de Pacencia closes the day.
Cueva de Pacencia → Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → Chaves I is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chaves I → Forau del Cocho is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Forau del Cocho → back through Chaves I is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chaves I → back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → Cueva de Pacencia is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.