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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A 383 km round trip from Moratalla - roughly 6 h 36 in the saddle. On the way it passes Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il, Diosa madre, Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I and back through Diosa madre. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The border between Albacete and Murcia runs through a tangle of mountains here, and the villages of Socovos, Férez and Letur sit among them like small islands. The Cueva del Esquilo is one of the painted rock shelters in these hills, a reminder that people lived and hunted in the Segura mountains thousands of years before any border existed. Like most of the rock art in the region, it is protected and best visited with local guidance; the town halls and tourist offices of the surrounding villages are the place to ask.
Read the complete Cueva del Esquilo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cueva del Esquilo is where the day begins. Next is Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il.
Water from these mountains ends up in the taps of Cartagena. The Taibilla river, which rises in the hills above Nerpio, feeds the canals of the Mancomunidad de los Canales del Taibilla, built in the twentieth century to supply towns across Murcia and beyond, and a name like the engineers' houses hints at how much that project marked the valley. Las Casas de los Ingenieros II is a rock shelter near Nerpio, one of the many painted sites in this remote corner of the Sierra de Segura.
Read the complete Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il write-up.
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Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il comes up about 65 km into the recorded legs. Next is Diosa madre.
Some places on a map feel remote; this one actually is. The point named Diosa Madre, mother goddess, lies in the mountains of the Sierra de Segura, in the far southwest of Albacete province, roughly sixteen kilometres from Yeste and not far from the border with Jaén. The mountains themselves are the real experience.
Read the complete Diosa madre write-up.
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about 129 km into the recorded legs you reach Diosa madre. Next is Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I.
Nerpio is about as far from anywhere as you can get in mainland Spain. The village sits in the southwestern corner of Albacete province, where Castilla-La Mancha meets Andalusia and Murcia, in the mountains of the Sierra de Segura, at the end of long, winding roads. It is known for its walnut trees, which line the valleys and give the village its pride, and for its rock art: the hills around are full of shelters with prehistoric paintings, and Nerpio is one of the most important centres for Levantine art in Spain. The Abrigo de la Fuente de Montañoz is one of these shelters, near a spring in the hills above the Taibilla river.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I write-up.
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Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I, about halfway. Next is back through Diosa madre.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Diosa madre write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Diosa madre sits at 256 km, about halfway. Next is back through Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il comes up about 318 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva del Esquilo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva del Esquilo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cueva del Esquilo closes the day.
Cueva del Esquilo → Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il → Diosa madre is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Diosa madre → Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I → back through Diosa madre is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Diosa madre → back through Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il → Cueva del Esquilo is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.