CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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301 km from María to María, about 6 h 32 of riding. It goes by way of Colmenas, Letreros de los mártires, Río frío and back through Letreros de los mártires. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Here the high plateau of northern Almería feels as far from the beach resorts as it is possible to be. The land is a wide, dry tableland of cereal fields, almond groves and scrubby pine, at about a thousand metres, with the Sierra de María rising above it in bare limestone ridges. The little village of María and the towns of Vélez Rubio and Vélez-Blanco are the centres of the district, known as Los Vélez, and the shelters of the area, including this one, hold prehistoric paintings in the Levantine style.
Read the complete Derecho E. de Santonje write-up.
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Derecho E. de Santonje is where the day begins. Next is Colmenas.
Vélez-Blanco is a white town under a limestone crag in the north of Almería province, with a Renaissance castle on the rock above it and the pine-covered Sierra María rising behind. The Colmenas label sits less than a kilometre away, in country of dry slopes, almond groves and scattered farms.
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Colmenas comes up 36 km in. Next is Letreros de los mártires.
Out in the high north-east of Granada province, Huéscar feels a long way from the Alhambra and the beaches of the Costa Tropical. This is the altiplano, a broad upland of wheat fields, almond trees and pale badlands at around a thousand metres, ringed by mountains, with the great limestone hump of La Sagra rising to the north. The rock shelter called Letreros de los Mártires lies in this country, a dozen or so kilometres from the town.
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72 km in you reach Letreros de los mártires. Next is Río frío.
Cold water is a rare luxury in southern Spain, and a stream called Río Frío promises exactly that. It is a land of pine forests, limestone crags, deep river gorges and tiny villages, and the painted rock shelters scattered through these hills are part of the UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula.
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Río frío, about halfway. Next is back through Letreros de los mártires.
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back through Letreros de los mártires sits at 145 km, about halfway. Next is back through Colmenas.
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Read the complete Colmenas write-up.
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back through Colmenas comes up 181 km in. Next is Derecho E. de Santonje, 36 km on.
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Read the complete Derecho E. de Santonje write-up.
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Derecho E. de Santonje closes the day.
Derecho E. de Santonje → Colmenas is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Colmenas → Letreros de los mártires is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Letreros de los mártires → Río frío is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Río frío → back through Letreros de los mártires is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Letreros de los mártires → back through Colmenas is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Colmenas → Derecho E. de Santonje is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.