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 231 km to Villa Ocampo; allow about 3 h 56 of riding. It goes by way of Temple of San Miguel of the town of Villa, Town of Valle de Allende and back through Temple of San Miguel of the town of Villa. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 Temple of San Miguel of the town of Villa.
The little church of San Miguel is the quiet heart of Villa Ocampo, which sits in the dry north of Durango, close to where the state meets Chihuahua. The settlement belongs to the long chain of towns strung along the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the old road that carried silver south and supplies, settlers and missionaries north, and it still has the layout you would expect: a plaza, a church at its edge, low houses of adobe and brick, and a feeling that nobody is in a hurry.
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Temple of San Miguel of the town of Villa comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. Next is Town of Valle de Allende.
Valle de Allende is a quiet town in the high desert of southern Chihuahua, set in a broad valley at about 1,500 metres, with green orchards and fields along the river and bare brown hills beyond. The population is around four thousand, and the place feels more like a country crossroads than a tourist stop. It is a base for a ride that heads south into the mountains toward Indé, across a landscape that has been shaped by mining and ranching for four centuries.
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about 115 km into the recorded legs you reach Town of Valle de Allende. Next is back through Temple of San Miguel of the town of Villa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Temple of San Miguel of the town of Villa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Temple of San Miguel of the town of Villa, 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 → Temple of San Miguel of the town of Villa is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple of San Miguel of the town of Villa → Town of Valle de Allende is 94 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Town of Valle de Allende → back through Temple of San Miguel of the town of Villa is 94 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Temple of San Miguel of the town of Villa → Former hacienda of the Limpia Concepción o is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.