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 280 km round trip from Centro de Arriba - roughly 4 h 47 in the saddle. The stops in between: Former hacienda of Pabellón de Hidalgo, Camino Real de Tierra Adentro and back through Former hacienda of Pabellón de Hidalgo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the royal road of the interior, ran for more than two thousand kilometres from Mexico City north to Santa Fe in present-day New Mexico, and for close to three centuries it carried silver south and settlers, soldiers, priests and goods north. Along it grew towns, missions, bridges and haciendas, and the former hacienda of Cieneguilla, on the high plain in the state of Aguascalientes, is one of the places inscribed by UNESCO in 2010 as part of that route.
Read the complete Former hacienda of Cieneguilla write-up.
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Former hacienda of Cieneguilla is where the day begins. Next is Former hacienda of Pabellón de Hidalgo.
Pabellón de Hidalgo is a small town in the north of the state of Aguascalientes, and its old hacienda has a moment of national drama attached to it. In January 1811, after the insurgent army of Miguel Hidalgo was routed by royalist forces at the Battle of Puente de Calderón near Guadalajara, the retreating leaders met here, at the Hacienda de San Blas de Pabellón. Exhausted and defeated, they stripped Hidalgo of his military command and handed it to Ignacio Allende, who had long resented the priest's leadership. A few weeks later both were captured in the north, and by the summer both had been executed. The War of Independence would go on for another decade without them.
Read the complete Former hacienda of Pabellón de Hidalgo write-up.
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Former hacienda of Pabellón de Hidalgo comes up about 75 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Camino Real de Tierra Adentro write-up.
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about 133 km into the recorded legs you reach Camino Real de Tierra Adentro. Next is back through Former hacienda of Pabellón de Hidalgo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Former hacienda of Pabellón de Hidalgo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Former hacienda of Pabellón de Hidalgo, late in the day. Next is Former hacienda of Cieneguilla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Former hacienda of Cieneguilla write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Former hacienda of Cieneguilla. That is the ride.
Former hacienda of Cieneguilla → Former hacienda of Pabellón de Hidalgo is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Former hacienda of Pabellón de Hidalgo → Camino Real de Tierra Adentro is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Camino Real de Tierra Adentro → back through Former hacienda of Pabellón de Hidalgo is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Former hacienda of Pabellón de Hidalgo → Former hacienda of Cieneguilla is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.