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 Villa Ocampo it runs 388 km to Villa Ocampo; allow about 6 h 59 of riding. It goes by way of Town of Indé, Chapel of San Mateo of the Former hacienda and back through Town of Indé. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Out on the high desert of northern Durango, where the land is pale, flat and ringed by distant ranges, a hacienda is still the most natural sort of landmark. These great estates grew along the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the silver road that ran from Mexico City all the way north to Santa Fe in New Mexico, and the stretch near Villa Ocampo is part of the route that UNESCO listed in 2010. Wagons, mule trains, soldiers, friars and miners all passed this way, and the haciendas fed them, watered them and sometimes cheated them.
Read the complete Former hacienda of the Limpia Concepción o write-up.
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Former hacienda of the Limpia Concepción o is where the day begins. Next is Town of Indé.
In the high desert of northern Durango, between mountain ranges and dry basins, the town of Inde lies along the old silver road that ran from Mexico City to Santa Fe in New Mexico. The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Road of the Interior Land, was in use from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth, carrying silver, mercury, supplies, settlers and missionaries over 2,500 kilometres, and the Mexican sections were inscribed on the World Heritage list in 2010. Inde was a stopping point on that road, with a church, a plaza and the haciendas that supplied the mining camps.
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Town of Indé comes up about 101 km into the recorded legs. Next is Chapel of San Mateo of the Former hacienda.
Indé is a small town in northern Durango, and the chapel of San Mateo belonged to a hacienda that supplied the silver road. The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro ran for about 2,600 kilometres from Mexico City to Santa Fe, and this stretch crossed some of the driest country on the way. Around here the landscape is bajada and basin, with mesquite, huisache and prickly pear on the plains and dark mountain ranges in the distance. Rainfall is low, and the wells and springs that haciendas depended on decided where people could live.
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about 194 km into the recorded legs you reach Chapel of San Mateo of the Former hacienda. Next is back through Town of Indé.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Town of Indé write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Town of Indé, late in the day. Next is Former hacienda of the Limpia Concepción o.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Former hacienda of the Limpia Concepción o write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Former hacienda of the Limpia Concepción o. That is the ride.
Former hacienda of the Limpia Concepción o → Town of Indé is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Town of Indé → Chapel of San Mateo of the Former hacienda is 93 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Chapel of San Mateo of the Former hacienda → back through Town of Indé is 93 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Town of Indé → Former hacienda of the Limpia Concepción o is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.