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 144 km round trip from El Refugio de Peñuelas - roughly 2 h 29 in the saddle. On the way it passes Former hacienda of Cieneguilla, Cemetery in Encarnación de Díaz and back through Former hacienda of Cieneguilla. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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.
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Former hacienda of Peñuelas is where the day begins. Next is Former hacienda of Cieneguilla.
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.
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Former hacienda of Cieneguilla comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cemetery in Encarnación de Díaz.
Encarnación de Díaz is a market town in Los Altos de Jalisco, the high, dry plateau between Guadalajara and Aguascalientes, and its cemetery is a surprising piece of world heritage. It is one of the stops listed as part of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the royal road that once ran from Mexico City to Santa Fe in present-day New Mexico, along which silver went south and settlers, missionaries and goods went north for almost three centuries. The cemetery, built in the nineteenth century, is enclosed by a wall with arched galleries and filled with ornate tombs and chapels, carved in local stone, which reflect the prosperity and piety of the town's families. On the Day of the Dead, at the beginning of November, it fills with flowers, candles and families sitting by their graves.
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about 73 km into the recorded legs you reach Cemetery in Encarnación de Díaz. Next is back through 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 through Former hacienda of Cieneguilla, late in the day. Next is 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 at Former hacienda of Peñuelas. That is the ride.
Former hacienda of Peñuelas → Former hacienda of Cieneguilla is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Former hacienda of Cieneguilla → Cemetery in Encarnación de Díaz is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cemetery in Encarnación de Díaz → back through Former hacienda of Cieneguilla is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Former hacienda of Cieneguilla → Former hacienda of Peñuelas is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.