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 Letur it runs 289 km to Letur; allow about 7 h 06 of riding. On the way it passes Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo, Abrigo del Engarbo, Letreros de los mártires and back through Abrigo del Engarbo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The Fuente del Sauco is the elder-tree fountain, a small spring that gave its name to a shelter in the hills between Letur and Socovos in the south of Albacete. Water is the story of this country. The Mundo river rises not far to the west, at a spectacular spring in the Calar del Mundo near Riópar, where it bursts out of a cave in a series of waterfalls, and it flows through the gorges below Letur before joining the Segura. Along its banks, and in the cliffs above, ancient people sheltered and painted, and the Andragulla and other shelters here belong to the same tradition, part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art that UNESCO protects.
Read the complete fuente del Sauco write-up.
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fuente del Sauco is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo.
A rambla is a dry riverbed that only runs after storms, and the Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo is one of many that cut into the limestone hills around Nerpio, in the remote south-western corner of Albacete. In a rock shelter above it, prehistoric people left paintings in the Levantine style, small, lively figures of people and animals, and the site is one of the many shelters around Nerpio that belong to the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Visits are normally arranged through the village, and a guide will know which shelters are accessible and when the light is right for seeing the faded pigment.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo write-up.
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Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo comes up about 39 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Engarbo.
Deep in the Sierra de Segura in the northeast of Jaén province, close to where the Segura river is born, the Engarbo rock shelters hide a few small painted figures under limestone overhangs. They belong to the great serial UNESCO listing of Levantine rock art, prehistoric paintings found along the mountains of eastern Spain, with stylised humans and animals in red ochre that have survived thousands of years of sun, frost and goats. The shelters are modest and fragile, often fenced, and visits usually need to be arranged locally, so treat them as a reason to explore this remote corner rather than a guaranteed sight.
Read the complete Abrigo del Engarbo write-up.
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about 94 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Engarbo. Next is Letreros de los mártires.
Out in the high north-east of Granada province, Huéscar feels a long way from the Alhambra and the beaches of the Costa Tropical. This is the altiplano, a broad upland of wheat fields, almond trees and pale badlands at around a thousand metres, ringed by mountains, with the great limestone hump of La Sagra rising to the north. The rock shelter called Letreros de los Mártires lies in this country, a dozen or so kilometres from the town.
Read the complete Letreros de los mártires write-up.
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Letreros de los mártires, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo del Engarbo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Engarbo write-up.
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back through Abrigo del Engarbo sits at 112 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo comes up about 248 km into the recorded legs. Next is fuente del Sauco.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete fuente del Sauco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
fuente del Sauco closes the day.
fuente del Sauco → Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo → Abrigo del Engarbo is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Engarbo → Letreros de los mártires is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Letreros de los mártires → back through Abrigo del Engarbo is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del Engarbo → back through Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo → fuente del Sauco is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.