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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401 km from Obón to Obón, about 6 h 52 of riding. On the way it passes Recodo de los Chaparros II, Abric del mas de Barberà, Els Secans and Valmayor IV. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The Río Martín is a modest river by Spanish standards, but it has carved one of the most interesting canyons in Aragon, and the Cultural Park that takes its name protects an extraordinary collection of rock art. El Cerrao is one of the shelters in that park, in the district of Montalbán in the province of Teruel, among cliffs of pale limestone above a dry valley. The paintings here belong to the Levantine tradition and are part of the group UNESCO inscribed in 1998.
Read the complete El Cerrao write-up.
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El Cerrao is where the day begins. Next is Recodo de los Chaparros II.
The Río Martín cuts a deep, narrow canyon through the dry limestone of the Bajo Aragón, in the province of Teruel, and the Recodo de los Chaparros, whose name means roughly the bend of the dwarf oaks, sits on that river a few kilometres from Albalate del Arzobispo. The land is rolling and almost treeless, covered in olive groves, almond trees and pale rocky fields, and it can feel like a different planet from the green north of Spain.
Read the complete Recodo de los Chaparros II write-up.
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Recodo de los Chaparros II comes up about 52 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric del mas de Barberà.
Alcañiz is the capital of the Bajo Aragón, a region of olive groves, cereal fields and dry hills crossed by the Guadalope river in the south-east of Aragón. The town is crowned by a castle built for the Order of Calatrava, now a parador, and its main square, with a Gothic loggia and the town hall, is one of the finest in the region. The shelter of the Mas de Barberà lies in the hills just outside town, toward Castelserás and Calanda.
Read the complete Abric del mas de Barberà write-up.
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about 105 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric del mas de Barberà. Next is Els Secans.
The lower Matarraña, in the far east of Aragón, is a drier, emptier country than the green upper valley. Here, the river flows through low hills of sandstone and limestone, with olive groves, almond trees and cereal fields, and the villages stand on hilltops, built of golden stone. Mazaleón is one of them, a small village above the river, with Maella and Calaceite nearby. Els Secans, a name meaning the dry lands, is a shelter with prehistoric paintings in the hills just outside the village.
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Els Secans, about halfway. Next is Valmayor IV.
Where the Ebro, the Segre and the Cinca meet in eastern Aragon, a vast reservoir stretches for dozens of kilometres between bare, ochre hills. The locals call it the Mar de Aragón, the Sea of Aragon, and it was created in the 1960s when the Mequinenza dam flooded the valley. The old town of Mequinenza went under the water too, and its people were moved to a new town built above, a story told in moving detail in the local museums and in the novels of Jesús Moncada, who grew up there.
Read the complete Valmayor IV write-up.
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Valmayor IV sits at 148 km, about halfway. Next is back through Els Secans.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Els Secans write-up.
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back through Els Secans comes up about 253 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abric del mas de Barberà.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del mas de Barberà write-up.
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about 298 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Abric del mas de Barberà. Next is back through Recodo de los Chaparros II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Recodo de los Chaparros II write-up.
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back through Recodo de los Chaparros II, late in the day. Next is El Cerrao.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete El Cerrao write-up.
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The route ends here after 401 km.
El Cerrao → Recodo de los Chaparros II is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Recodo de los Chaparros II → Abric del mas de Barberà is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del mas de Barberà → Els Secans is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Els Secans → Valmayor IV is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Valmayor IV → back through Els Secans is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Els Secans → back through Abric del mas de Barberà is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del mas de Barberà → back through Recodo de los Chaparros II is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Recodo de los Chaparros II → El Cerrao is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.