CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Cinco de Febrero it runs 399 km to Cinco de Febrero; allow about 7 h 49 of riding. The stops in between: Temples in the town of Nombre de Dios, Sierra de Órganos, Historic ensemble of the city of Sombreret and Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Chal. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
East of the city of Durango, where the high plateau of northern Mexico stretches flat and wide under a vast sky, the old hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán stands among irrigated fields and dusty farm roads. Its buildings, with thick adobe walls, a chapel and the remains of the main house, recall the centuries when great landed estates dominated this region, raising cattle, growing wheat and supplying the mining towns of the north. The hacienda is one of the sites listed as part of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Road of the Interior Land, which UNESCO inscribed in 2010. This was the long trade and colonisation route that ran from Mexico City north to Santa Fe in present-day New Mexico, more than two thousand kilometres through deserts and mountains.
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Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán is where the day begins. Next is Temples in the town of Nombre de Dios.
Nombre de Dios is one of the oldest Spanish towns in northern Mexico, founded in the 1560s by Franciscan missionaries and settlers on the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the royal road that ran from Mexico City north to Santa Fe in New Mexico, carrying silver, mercury, supplies and settlers for nearly three hundred years. The road was listed as a World Heritage Site in 2010, along with a string of towns, churches, haciendas and bridges, and the temples of Nombre de Dios are among them, simple churches in stone and adobe that once served as bases for missions to the north.
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Temples in the town of Nombre de Dios comes up 48 km in. Next is Sierra de Órganos.
Pipes of a giant church organ, frozen in stone: that is what the Spanish saw when they named the Sierra de Órganos, a range of rock formations in the north-west of the state of Zacatecas, near the border with Durango. The columns and pinnacles of volcanic rock rise from the high desert, carved by wind and water into strange shapes, and the area is a national park, protected for its geology and its landscape of grassland, oak and pine.
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96 km in you reach Sierra de Órganos. Next is Historic ensemble of the city of Sombreret.
Sombrerete is a silver town in the northwest of Zacatecas, founded in the 1550s when Spanish prospectors found rich veins of ore in the hills. The name comes from a hill nearby shaped like a small hat. In the colonial era, Sombrerete's mines produced enormous wealth, and the town grew into an important stop on the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the royal road linking Mexico City with the far north. That wealth built a remarkable collection of churches, convents and mansions, many in the pinkish local stone, and the historic ensemble is part of the UNESCO listing of the Camino Real. The Franciscan convent, the church of Santo Domingo, and the chapel of the Tercera Orden, with its unusual oval plan, are among the highlights. The town has a slightly faded, unhurried atmosphere, far from the tourist crowds of the more famous colonial cities.
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Historic ensemble of the city of Sombreret, about halfway. Next is Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Chal.
Chalchihuites is a small town in the far west of Zacatecas, on the edge of the Sierra Madre Occidental, and it lies on a stretch of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Road of the Interior Land. Its architectural ensemble, with a parish church and colonial houses around a plaza, is part of the UNESCO listing of the Camino Real. The name comes from the Nahuatl word for jade or greenstone, chalchihuitl, a reference to the turquoise-like stones found in the area, which were prized by the peoples of Mesoamerica.
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Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Chal sits at 192 km, about halfway. Next is back through Historic ensemble of the city of Sombreret.
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back through Historic ensemble of the city of Sombreret comes up 239 km in. Next is back through Sierra de Órganos.
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287 km in you reach back through Sierra de Órganos. Next is back through Temples in the town of Nombre de Dios.
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back through Temples in the town of Nombre de Dios, late in the day. Next is Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán.
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The route ends here after 399 km.
Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán → Temples in the town of Nombre de Dios is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temples in the town of Nombre de Dios → Sierra de Órganos is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sierra de Órganos → Historic ensemble of the city of Sombreret is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic ensemble of the city of Sombreret → Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Chal is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Chal → back through Historic ensemble of the city of Sombreret is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Historic ensemble of the city of Sombreret → back through Sierra de Órganos is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sierra de Órganos → back through Temples in the town of Nombre de Dios is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temples in the town of Nombre de Dios → Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.