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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From El Cobre it runs 360 km to El Cobre; allow about 7 h 30 of riding. On the way it passes Archaeological Landscape of the First Coff, Yateras and back through Archaeological Landscape of the First Coff. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Few places in Cuba matter as much to ordinary people as the little town of El Cobre, high on a hill about thirteen kilometres west of Santiago de Cuba. Its basilica, a yellow-and-white church with three domes standing against the green of the Sierra Maestra, holds the Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre, the patron saint of Cuba, a small statue of the Virgin dressed in gold. Believers and non-believers alike treat her as a symbol of the nation, and the pilgrimage on her feast day, the eighth of September, draws crowds from across the island.
Read the complete El Cobre write-up.
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El Cobre is where the day begins. Next is Archaeological Landscape of the First Coff.
In the hills of southeastern Cuba, between Santiago and Guantánamo, the ruins of old coffee plantations lie hidden in the forest, and they tell a remarkable story. After the slave revolution in Saint-Domingue in the 1790s, which led to the independence of Haiti, many French planters fled to Cuba with their enslaved workers, and they introduced coffee growing on a large scale in the Sierra Maestra foothills. In the nineteenth century, hundreds of cafetales were established, with mansions, drying platforms, mills, aqueducts and slave quarters, using innovative techniques adapted to the steep mountain terrain. The Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba was listed by UNESCO in 2000.
Read the complete Archaeological Landscape of the First Coff write-up.
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Archaeological Landscape of the First Coff comes up about 102 km into the recorded legs. Next is Yateras.
Yateras is coffee country in the hills of Guantánamo province, at the far eastern end of Cuba, and getting here feels like leaving the island most visitors know. The municipality climbs from the dry lowlands around Guantánamo city into green, steep mountains, part of the great Nipe-Sagua-Baracoa range that runs along the north-east of the island.
Read the complete Yateras write-up.
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about 181 km into the recorded legs you reach Yateras. Next is back through Archaeological Landscape of the First Coff.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Archaeological Landscape of the First Coff write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Archaeological Landscape of the First Coff, late in the day. Next is El Cobre.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete El Cobre write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at El Cobre. That is the ride.
El Cobre → Archaeological Landscape of the First Coff is 102 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Archaeological Landscape of the First Coff → Yateras is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Yateras → back through Archaeological Landscape of the First Coff is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Archaeological Landscape of the First Coff → El Cobre is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.