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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From Cinco de Febrero it runs 368 km to Cinco de Febrero; allow about 5 h 53 of riding. On the way it passes Temple of the town of San José de Avino, Chapel of the former hacienda of La Inmacu and back through Temple of the town of San José de Avino. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,150 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.
Read the complete Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán write-up.
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Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán is where the day begins. Next is Temple of the town of San José de Avino.
Silver built this road, and the old church at San Jose de Avino is one of the buildings that mark it. The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro was the great highway of colonial Mexico, running more than two thousand kilometres from Mexico City north to Santa Fe in New Mexico, used by mule trains carrying silver south and supplies north for nearly three centuries. A section of it, with a number of towns and monuments along the way, was listed as a World Heritage site in 2010. Avino was a mining settlement in the hills of Durango, one of the earliest silver camps of the north, and the temple stands in the village as a reminder of the money and faith that came with the mine.
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Temple of the town of San José de Avino comes up about 84 km into the recorded legs. Next is Chapel of the former hacienda of La Inmacu.
Out in the dry heart of northern Mexico, among the creosote bushes and distant mountains of the Chihuahuan Desert, stand the ruins and chapels of old haciendas, great estates that shaped the history of the country. The chapel at the former Hacienda de la Inmaculada Concepción in Durango is one of them, a small whitewashed church standing in an empty landscape, with a bell tower and a simple interior built for the workers who lived and laboured on the estate. A hacienda was a world of its own, with a main house, a granary, a store, stables, workers' homes and a chapel, and the owners often held enormous areas, producing cattle, cotton, maize or minerals.
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about 184 km into the recorded legs you reach Chapel of the former hacienda of La Inmacu. Next is back through Temple of the town of San José de Avino.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Temple of the town of San José de Avino write-up.
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back through Temple of the town of San José de Avino, late in the day. Next is Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán. That is the ride.
Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán → Temple of the town of San José de Avino is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Temple of the town of San José de Avino → Chapel of the former hacienda of La Inmacu is 100 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Chapel of the former hacienda of La Inmacu → back through Temple of the town of San José de Avino is 100 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Temple of the town of San José de Avino → Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.