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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265 km from Jerez de García Salinas to Jerez de García Salinas, about 5 h 19 of riding. On the way it passes Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir, Cuyetsarie and back through Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Jerez de García Salinas is the reason most riders end up here, and it is a happy accident if they do. This colonial town in the west of Zacatecas state, a couple of kilometres from the point, is a Pueblo Mágico with a leafy plaza, an ornate little theatre, the Teatro Hinojosa, said to be modelled on Ford's Theatre in Washington, and the childhood home of Ramón López Velarde, the poet whose verses about provincial Mexico every schoolchild there knows. Jerez is a ranchero town at heart, with saddle makers, boot shops and men in hats, and the Easter fair with its horses and music draws people from across the region.
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Cupuri Mutiu is where the day begins. Next is Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir.
West of Jerez, in Zacatecas, the land starts to fold into the long ridges of the Sierra Madre Occidental, and somewhere in these hills runs the path that Wixárika pilgrims follow from their homeland in the mountains of Jalisco and Nayarit toward Wirikuta, their sacred desert far to the east. The route, listed by UNESCO in 2025, is not a road in the usual sense but a chain of sacred places, springs, hills and caves where the pilgrims stop to pray, leave offerings and remember the journey of their ancestors, who according to tradition walked this way at the beginning of the world.
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Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir comes up about 37 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cuyetsarie.
This is a point on the high plateau where Zacatecas, Jalisco and Durango meet, in the dry country at the edge of the northern Sierra Madre Occidental. The names of the rides, Cuyetsarie, Cacai Mutijé and Xurahue Muyaca, belong to the Wixárika people, whom outsiders call the Huichol, and refer to places in their sacred geography. Wixárika communities live in the rugged canyons of Mezquitic and Huejuquilla and the neighbouring sierra, and they keep a living tradition in which certain springs, hills and rocks are sites of offering, prayer and pilgrimage.
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about 133 km into the recorded legs you reach Cuyetsarie. Next is back through Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir, late in the day. Next is Cupuri Mutiu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cupuri Mutiu write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cupuri Mutiu. That is the ride.
Cupuri Mutiu → Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir → Cuyetsarie is 96 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cuyetsarie → back through Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir is 96 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir → Cupuri Mutiu is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.