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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328 km from Lagos de Moreno to Lagos de Moreno, about 4 h 32 of riding. The stops in between: Bridge of Ojuelos, Historic ensemble of the city of Aguascali and back through Bridge of Ojuelos. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The ride follows Historic centre of the city of Lagos de Mo → Bridge of Ojuelos for 100 km.
Lagos de Moreno is a colonial town in the highlands of Jalisco, the Altos, on the old Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Road of the Interior Land that linked Mexico City to Santa Fe, in what is now New Mexico. For three centuries, silver, mercury, goods and people travelled along it, and towns grew up at its stopping points. Lagos de Moreno was one of the most important, and its historic centre is part of the UNESCO listing of the Camino Real, inscribed in 2010. The town has handsome churches, including a baroque parish church with an elaborately carved façade of pink stone, mansions with wrought-iron balconies, a theatre and a hospital from the colonial era.
Read the complete Historic centre of the city of Lagos de Mo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Historic centre of the city of Lagos de Mo is where the day begins. Next is Bridge of Ojuelos.
The silver carts of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro needed to cross streams on the high plain between Mexico City and Zacatecas, and at Ojuelos, in the northeast corner of Jalisco, a stone bridge was built in colonial times to carry the road. It is part of the World Heritage listing of the royal road, along with the historic centre of Ojuelos, which grew around a presidio, a fort built to protect travellers on the road from the Chichimec peoples who resisted Spanish expansion.
Read the complete Bridge of Ojuelos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Bridge of Ojuelos comes up about 100 km into the recorded legs. Next is Historic ensemble of the city of Aguascali.
Aguascalientes means hot waters, and the city got its name from the thermal springs that the Spanish found here in the sixteenth century, when they founded a settlement on the road from Mexico City to the silver mines of Zacatecas. That road, the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, ran north for over two thousand kilometres to Santa Fe in New Mexico, and it is listed by UNESCO, with sites along its route. The historic centre of Aguascalientes is a pleasant mix of colonial churches, eighteenth-century houses and nineteenth-century buildings around the Plaza de la Patria and its cathedral.
Read the complete Historic ensemble of the city of Aguascali write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 164 km into the recorded legs you reach Historic ensemble of the city of Aguascali. Next is back through Bridge of Ojuelos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bridge of Ojuelos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Bridge of Ojuelos, late in the day. Next is Historic centre of the city of Lagos de Mo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic centre of the city of Lagos de Mo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Historic centre of the city of Lagos de Mo. That is the ride.
Historic centre of the city of Lagos de Mo → Bridge of Ojuelos is 100 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Bridge of Ojuelos → Historic ensemble of the city of Aguascali is 64 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Historic ensemble of the city of Aguascali → back through Bridge of Ojuelos is 64 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Bridge of Ojuelos → Historic centre of the city of Lagos de Mo is 100 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.