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 518 km round trip from Yeste - roughly 10 h 38 in the saddle. It goes by way of Central E. de Santonje, Cueva de la Plata and back through Central E. de Santonje. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 Central E. de Santonje, 70 km on.
The Indalo, a little stick figure holding an arc over its head, is now the symbol of the whole province of Almería, painted on houses, cars and souvenirs, and it comes from a rock shelter here in the hills around Vélez-Blanco. The Cueva de los Letreros, a few kilometres from this point, holds the original among other paintings of the Levantine and schematic styles, and the shelters of the Sierra de María are part of the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, inscribed in 1998. Santonje, as the area is called, is one of a cluster of sites in these mountains.
Read the complete Central E. de Santonje write-up.
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Central E. de Santonje comes up about 154 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva de la Plata.
Aledo is a tiny village on a rocky spur in the hills of Murcia, a place that punches well above its weight in history. In the eleventh century, it was a fortress on the frontier between Christian Castile and the Muslim taifa kingdoms, and the siege of Aledo in 1088 was a major episode in the struggle for the peninsula. A tower still stands above the village. The Cueva de la Plata, the silver cave, lies in the hills nearby, between Aledo, Totana and Alhama de Murcia.
Read the complete Cueva de la Plata write-up.
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about 259 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva de la Plata. Next is back through Central E. de Santonje, 70 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Central E. de Santonje write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Central E. de Santonje, late in the day. Next is Guijarral.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Guijarral write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Guijarral. That is the ride.
Guijarral → Central E. de Santonje is 154 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Central E. de Santonje → Cueva de la Plata is 105 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cueva de la Plata → back through Central E. de Santonje is 105 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Central E. de Santonje → Guijarral is 154 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.