CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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616 km from Cuenca to Cuenca, about 12 h 17 of riding. The stops in between: Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez, Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca, Sangay National Park and back through Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 3,750 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
High in the southern Ecuadorian Andes, at about 2,500 metres, Cuenca was founded by the Spanish in 1557 on a grid plan, on the site of an Inca city called Tomebamba, which was itself built over an earlier Cañari settlement. The colonial centre, with its cobbled streets, whitewashed houses with wooden balconies, churches and plazas, was inscribed by UNESCO in 1999, and the blue-tiled domes of the new cathedral are the city's landmark. The Tomebamba river runs through the city, lined with parks and old houses perched on the bank.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d write-up.
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Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d is where the day begins. Next is Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez.
High in the southern Andes of Ecuador, in the province of Cañar, a stretch of Inca road runs between the small towns of El Tambo and Honorato Vásquez, part of the Qhapaq Ñan World Heritage Site. The name El Tambo itself comes from the Inca word for a waystation, where travellers could rest and find supplies. This route was part of the great road that ran north from Cusco to Quito, and in this area it passed close to Ingapirca, the largest Inca site in Ecuador.
Read the complete Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez write-up.
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Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez comes up 65 km in. Next is Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca.
Achupallas is a high village in Chimborazo province, about sixteen kilometres from Alausí, and the walking trail named after it, which runs south towards Ingapirca, is one of Ecuador's best-known treks. For motorcyclists the point is the landscape and the road beside it: bare páramo at over three thousand metres, with the volcanic cone of Sangay on a clear day, and little else but sheep, lupins and the odd shepherd's hut.
Read the complete Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca write-up.
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129 km in you reach Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca. Next is Sangay National Park.
Sangay is one of the most active volcanoes on Earth, a cone of a little over five thousand two hundred metres that has been erupting more or less continuously for centuries. It stands in the eastern Andes of Ecuador, at the centre of a national park that was listed as a World Heritage Site in 1983, and the park covers a remarkable range of habitats, from glaciers and páramo down through cloud forest to Amazonian rainforest. The altitude difference between the top of the mountain and the lowest part of the park is more than four thousand metres.
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Sangay National Park, about halfway. Next is back through Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca write-up.
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back through Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca sits at 258 km, about halfway. Next is back through Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez write-up.
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back through Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez comes up 323 km in. Next is Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d write-up.
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Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d closes the day.
Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d → Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez → Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca → Sangay National Park is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Sangay National Park → back through Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca → back through Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez → Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.