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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115 km from Pabellón de Hidalgo to Pabellón de Hidalgo, about 1 h 49 of riding. On the way it passes Historic ensemble of the city of Aguascali, Former hacienda of Peñuelas and back through Historic ensemble of the city of Aguascali. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 is where the day begins. 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.
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Historic ensemble of the city of Aguascali comes up about 37 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 57 km into the recorded legs you reach Former hacienda of Peñuelas. Next is back through Historic ensemble of the city of Aguascali.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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.
back through Historic ensemble of the city of Aguascali, late in the day. Next is 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 at Former hacienda of Pabellón de Hidalgo. That is the ride.
Former hacienda of Pabellón de Hidalgo → Historic ensemble of the city of Aguascali is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic ensemble of the city of Aguascali → Former hacienda of Peñuelas is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Former hacienda of Peñuelas → back through Historic ensemble of the city of Aguascali is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Historic ensemble of the city of Aguascali → Former hacienda of Pabellón de Hidalgo is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.