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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A 264 km round trip from Jerez de García Salinas - roughly 3 h 57 in the saddle. On the way it passes Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal, Sanctuary of Plateros and back through Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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 Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal.
Zacatecas was built on silver, and the town next to it, Guadalupe, was built on faith. In the middle of the eighteenth century a Franciscan college was founded here to train missionaries who would go north into the unconquered country, and its big church, cloisters and long galleries still stand on the edge of the city, now serving as a museum of colonial art with paintings, carved altarpieces and religious objects. The college once sent friars as far as Texas and California.
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Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal comes up about 59 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sanctuary of Plateros.
Plateros is a small town on the edge of the high desert plateau in Zacatecas, a few kilometres from the silver city of Fresnillo, and it exists, more or less, because of one small figure on an altar. The Santo Nino de Atocha, a child dressed as a pilgrim and carrying a basket and a staff, is revered here as a protector of travellers, prisoners and the sick. The devotion came from Spain, where the original image belongs to the shrine of Atocha in Madrid, and it was carried across the Atlantic by the Spanish miners who came for Zacatecas silver. The sanctuary at Plateros became one of the most important pilgrimage sites in Mexico.
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about 132 km into the recorded legs you reach Sanctuary of Plateros. Next is back through Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal.
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back through Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal, 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 → Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal → Sanctuary of Plateros is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Sanctuary of Plateros → back through Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal → Cupuri Mutiu is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.