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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A 203 km round trip from Yeste - roughly 5 h 32 in the saddle. On the way it passes Zona 1, Cañaica del Calar l, Benizar V and back through Cañaica del Calar l. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Spain's largest protected area is the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas, and it spreads across a long stretch of wooded mountains in Jaén and Albacete. The Guijarral lies on its northern edge, in country close to Yeste, Segura de la Sierra and Orcera, where black pines and holm oaks cover steep slopes and rivers cut gorges between. Here, among rock walls, shelters preserve paintings, part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art listed by UNESCO in 1998, and the sites of the area, such as Zona 1 and the Collado de la Cruz, tell of hunting peoples who lived in these mountains long ago.
Read the complete Guijarral write-up.
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Guijarral is where the day begins. Next is Zona 1.
Nerpio is about as far from anywhere as you can get in mainland Spain. The village lies in the southwestern corner of Albacete province, close to the borders of Murcia, Granada and Jaén, in a high, wild landscape of limestone ridges, pine forest and deep river valleys. The area is known for two things: walnuts, which grow in huge old trees along the Taibilla river and are celebrated in local cooking, and one of the densest concentrations of prehistoric rock art in the Iberian Peninsula, part of the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. The generic label Zona 1 points at the hills near the village, where rock shelters with painted figures are scattered across the cliffs.
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Zona 1 comes up about 45 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cañaica del Calar l.
Very few people get here. The Cañaica del Calar lies in the far north-west of the region of Murcia, near the border with Albacete and Andalusia, in a wild landscape of limestone plateaus, pine forests and deep valleys around Moratalla and Nerpio. The calar is the local word for a limestone plateau, and the rock shelters on its edges hold prehistoric paintings in the Levantine style, part of the World Heritage rock art of the Mediterranean. The area around Nerpio is one of the richest in Spain for rock art.
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about 77 km into the recorded legs you reach Cañaica del Calar l. Next is Benizar V.
Benizar is one of those places that only a handful of maps bother to name. It is a hamlet belonging to Moratalla, in the hilly north-west of the Murcia region, close to where the province meets Albacete and the first ridges of the Sierra de Segura begin. Around it, in the rock faces and gullies, archaeologists have recorded a cluster of painted shelters, and Benizar V is one in this series: a stone overhang with faint prehistoric figures, part of the Levantine rock art that runs along Spain's eastern mountains.
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Benizar V, about halfway. Next is back through Cañaica del Calar l.
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Read the complete Cañaica del Calar l write-up.
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back through Cañaica del Calar l sits at 101 km, about halfway. Next is back through Zona 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zona 1 write-up.
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back through Zona 1 comes up about 158 km into the recorded legs. Next is Guijarral.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Guijarral write-up.
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Guijarral closes the day.
Guijarral → Zona 1 is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zona 1 → Cañaica del Calar l is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cañaica del Calar l → Benizar V is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Benizar V → back through Cañaica del Calar l is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cañaica del Calar l → back through Zona 1 is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zona 1 → Guijarral is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.