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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118 km from Victoria de Durango to Victoria de Durango, about 2 h 08 of riding. It goes by way of Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán, Temples in the town of Nombre de Dios and back through Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 14 km this is Espinazo del Diablo, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Durango was founded in 1563 by Francisco de Ibarra as the capital of Nueva Vizcaya, a huge northern province that stretched toward the unconquered frontier, and it still has the look of a frontier capital that became rich and then politely stopped. The historic centre is a tidy grid of colonial buildings in pink and yellow stone, with the Plaza de Armas at its core and the great baroque cathedral facing it. Mining money, mostly silver, paid for the arcades, mansions and theatres, and the streets are remarkably free of the clutter you find in larger cities.
Read the complete Historic centre of the city of Durango write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Historic centre of the city of Durango is where the day begins. Next is Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán.
East of the city of Durango, where the high plateau of northern Mexico stretches flat and wide under a vast sky, the old hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán stands among irrigated fields and dusty farm roads. Its buildings, with thick adobe walls, a chapel and the remains of the main house, recall the centuries when great landed estates dominated this region, raising cattle, growing wheat and supplying the mining towns of the north. The hacienda is one of the sites listed as part of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Road of the Interior Land, which UNESCO inscribed in 2010. This was the long trade and colonisation route that ran from Mexico City north to Santa Fe in present-day New Mexico, more than two thousand kilometres through deserts and mountains.
Read the complete Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán comes up about 14 km into the recorded legs. Next is Temples in the town of Nombre de Dios.
Nombre de Dios is one of the oldest Spanish towns in northern Mexico, founded in the 1560s by Franciscan missionaries and settlers on the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the royal road that ran from Mexico City north to Santa Fe in New Mexico, carrying silver, mercury, supplies and settlers for nearly three hundred years. The road was listed as a World Heritage Site in 2010, along with a string of towns, churches, haciendas and bridges, and the temples of Nombre de Dios are among them, simple churches in stone and adobe that once served as bases for missions to the north.
Read the complete Temples in the town of Nombre de Dios write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 58 km into the recorded legs you reach Temples in the town of Nombre de Dios. Next is back through Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán, late in the day. Next is Historic centre of the city of Durango.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic centre of the city of Durango write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Historic centre of the city of Durango. That is the ride.
Historic centre of the city of Durango → Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán → Temples in the town of Nombre de Dios is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temples in the town of Nombre de Dios → back through Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán → Historic centre of the city of Durango is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.