CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 151 km round trip from Villa de Ramos - roughly 3 h 49 in the saddle. The stops in between: Tatei Matiniere, Natsitacua and back through Tatei Matiniere. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
Read the complete Cuhixu Uheni write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cuhixu Uheni is where the day begins. Next is Tatei Matiniere.
Every year, Wixárika pilgrims walk or drive hundreds of kilometres from their homeland in the Sierra Madre Occidental to the desert of Wirikuta in San Luis Potosí, where they collect peyote, the sacred cactus they call hikuri, and perform ceremonies to renew the world. Along the way, they stop at sacred places, and Tatei Matinieri, a group of springs in the semi-desert of the Altiplano, is one of the most important. The Wixárika route through these sacred sites was listed by UNESCO in 2025, recognising a living tradition that goes back centuries.
Read the complete Tatei Matiniere write-up.
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Tatei Matiniere comes up 28 km in. Next is Natsitacua.
Every year, groups of Wixárika people, known in Spanish as Huichols, leave their homes in the Sierra Madre Occidental and walk, ride or drive hundreds of kilometres east to Wirikuta, the sacred desert in San Luis Potosí where, in their tradition, the sun was born. Along the way they stop at a series of sacred places, springs, hills and water holes, where they leave offerings and perform ceremonies. Natsitacua is one of these places, out on the high plains near the border of Zacatecas and San Luis Potosí, and the names of the neighbouring stops on the route, such as Nihuetaritsié, are in the Wixárika language.
Read the complete Natsitacua write-up.
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55 km in you reach Natsitacua. Next is back through Tatei Matiniere.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tatei Matiniere write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Tatei Matiniere, 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 → Tatei Matiniere is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tatei Matiniere → Natsitacua is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Natsitacua → back through Tatei Matiniere is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tatei Matiniere → Cuhixu Uheni is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.