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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An 89 km round trip from Centro de Arriba - roughly 1 h 35 in the saddle. The stops in between: Former hacienda of Peñuelas, Historic ensemble of the city of Aguascali and back through Former hacienda of Peñuelas. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Former hacienda of Cieneguilla is where the day begins. Next is Former hacienda of Peñuelas.
South of the city of Aguascalientes, on the high plateau of central Mexico, the former hacienda of Peñuelas stands among fields and scrub, its stone and adobe buildings, chapel and courtyards a reminder of the great rural estates that once dominated the region. It was one of the stops on the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the royal road from Mexico City to the silver mines of Zacatecas and beyond to New Mexico, and it is part of the UNESCO listing of sites along the road, inscribed in 2010.
Read the complete Former hacienda of Peñuelas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Former hacienda of Peñuelas comes up about 24 km into the recorded legs. Next is Historic ensemble of the city of Aguascali.
Aguascalientes means hot waters, and the city got its name from the thermal springs that the Spanish found here in the sixteenth century, when they founded a settlement on the road from Mexico City to the silver mines of Zacatecas. That road, the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, ran north for over two thousand kilometres to Santa Fe in New Mexico, and it is listed by UNESCO, with sites along its route. The historic centre of Aguascalientes is a pleasant mix of colonial churches, eighteenth-century houses and nineteenth-century buildings around the Plaza de la Patria and its cathedral.
Read the complete Historic ensemble of the city of Aguascali write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 45 km into the recorded legs you reach Historic ensemble of the city of Aguascali. Next is back through Former hacienda of Peñuelas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Former hacienda of Peñuelas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Former hacienda of Peñuelas, 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 Peñuelas is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Former hacienda of Peñuelas → Historic ensemble of the city of Aguascali is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic ensemble of the city of Aguascali → back through Former hacienda of Peñuelas is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Former hacienda of Peñuelas → Former hacienda of Cieneguilla is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.