CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 457 km round trip from Monte Escobedo - roughly 8 h 56 in the saddle. It goes by way of Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir, Cupuri Mutiu, Macuipa and Camino Real de Tierra Adentro. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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.
Read the complete Cuyetsarie write-up.
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Cuyetsarie 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.
Read the complete Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir write-up.
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Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir comes up 47 km in. Next is Cupuri Mutiu.
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.
Read the complete Cupuri Mutiu write-up.
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94 km in you reach Cupuri Mutiu. Next is Macuipa.
Macuipa lies on the edge of Zacatecas, the silver capital of northern Mexico, and the name points to the sacred geography of the Wixárika, the Huichol people, whose pilgrimage route passes through this region on its way from their homeland in the Sierra Madre Occidental to Wirikuta, the sacred desert in San Luis Potosí. For centuries, Wixárika pilgrims have walked this route, hundreds of kilometres long, visiting springs, hills and rocks where their deities dwell, leaving offerings and performing ceremonies. The route has recently been recognised by UNESCO. Exactly what is to be seen at Macuipa is not easy to say from a distance; treat it as a place where two very different worlds, the Spanish silver city and the indigenous sacred landscape, meet.
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Macuipa, about halfway. Next is Camino Real de Tierra Adentro.
South of Zacatecas, on the high plateau of northern Mexico, the old Camino Real de Tierra Adentro passes through a landscape of dry hills, maize fields and mesquite. This was the royal road of the interior, the great artery that ran from Mexico City for more than two and a half thousand kilometres north to Santa Fe, in what is now New Mexico, and it was the backbone of Spanish colonial expansion. Wagons and mule trains carried the silver from the mines of Zacatecas and Guanajuato south to the capital and the coast, while settlers, soldiers, priests and goods made their way north. Along the route, haciendas, chapels, bridges and towns grew up, and today sixty sites, including the historic centre of Zacatecas, form a World Heritage route.
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Camino Real de Tierra Adentro sits at 188 km, about halfway. Next is back through Macuipa.
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back through Macuipa comes up 234 km in. Next is back through Cupuri Mutiu.
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Read the complete Cupuri Mutiu write-up.
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281 km in you reach back through Cupuri Mutiu. Next is back through Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir.
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back through Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir, late in the day. Next is Cuyetsarie.
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Read the complete Cuyetsarie write-up.
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The route ends here after 457 km.
Cuyetsarie → Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir → Cupuri Mutiu is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cupuri Mutiu → Macuipa is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Macuipa → Camino Real de Tierra Adentro is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Camino Real de Tierra Adentro → back through Macuipa is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Macuipa → back through Cupuri Mutiu is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cupuri Mutiu → back through Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir → Cuyetsarie is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.