CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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556 km from Villa de Ramos to Villa de Ramos, about 13 h 50 of riding. The stops in between: Uxa Tequipa, Huiricuta: Mucuyahue and back through Uxa Tequipa. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Every year, groups of Wixárika pilgrims, the people known to outsiders as the Huichol, walk hundreds of kilometres from their homeland in the mountains of Jalisco and Nayarit to Wirikuta, a sacred desert in San Luis Potosí. The route crosses a chain of sacred places, springs, hills and rocks, where offerings are left and ceremonies performed, and Cuhixu Uheni, near the small town of Villa de Ramos, is one of them. The pilgrimage route as a whole has been put forward for World Heritage status as a living cultural landscape.
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Cuhixu Uheni is where the day begins. Next is Uxa Tequipa.
In the high desert of northern San Luis Potosí, among creosote bush, yucca and endless sky, lies a landscape that is sacred to the Wixárika, the people outsiders often call the Huichol. Every year, pilgrims walk or travel hundreds of kilometres from their homes in the Sierra Madre Occidental of Jalisco and Nayarit to Wirikuta, the place where, in their cosmology, the sun was born. Along the way they stop at a sequence of sacred sites, springs, rocks and hills, each with its own name, offerings and rituals. Uxa Tequipa is one of these places, and the route as a whole has been proposed for the UNESCO list as Huiricuta, the Wixárika sacred route.
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Uxa Tequipa comes up 77 km in. Next is Huiricuta: Mucuyahue.
In the high desert of San Luis Potosí, below the mountains of the Sierra de Catorce, lies Wirikuta, the most sacred landscape of the Wixárika people, better known as the Huichol. Every year, pilgrims walk or drive hundreds of kilometres from their homes in the mountains of Jalisco and Nayarit to this semi-desert, following a route they believe their ancestors travelled at the beginning of time. According to their tradition, the sun was born on the hill called Cerro Quemado above Real de Catorce, and the desert is where they come to collect hikuri, the peyote cactus, which they consider a sacred plant and use in ceremonies. The various sacred sites along the pilgrimage, including this one, are on Mexico's tentative list for World Heritage.
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155 km in you reach Huiricuta: Mucuyahue. Next is back through Uxa Tequipa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Uxa Tequipa write-up.
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back through Uxa Tequipa, late in the day. Next is Cuhixu Uheni.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cuhixu Uheni write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cuhixu Uheni. That is the ride.
Cuhixu Uheni → Uxa Tequipa is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Uxa Tequipa → Huiricuta: Mucuyahue is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Huiricuta: Mucuyahue → back through Uxa Tequipa is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Uxa Tequipa → Cuhixu Uheni is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.