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 94 km round trip from Santiago de Querétaro - roughly 1 h 48 in the saddle. The stops in between: Former hacienda of Chichimequillas, Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist and back through Former hacienda of Chichimequillas. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Querétaro is the city where Mexico was twice made, once by the Spanish and once by its own lawmakers. In the old centre, the streets run from one small square to the next, each with a baroque church, a fountain and a few trees, and the pace is calmer than in the big cities. The city was founded as an Otomí settlement and became a Spanish colonial town in the sixteenth century, and the historic centre was added to the World Heritage list in 1996 for its mix of baroque architecture and its unusual layout, which blends the regular Spanish grid with the winding lanes of the indigenous quarter.
Read the complete Historic centre of the city of Querétaro write-up.
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Historic centre of the city of Querétaro is where the day begins. Next is Former hacienda of Chichimequillas.
On the high, dry plain northeast of Querétaro, the village of Chichimequillas grew up around an old hacienda, one of the many great estates that lined the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Inland Road that connected Mexico City with Santa Fe, in what is now New Mexico, for nearly three centuries. Silver, mercury, cloth, livestock, missionaries and soldiers travelled this route, and haciendas like this one supplied food, water and rest. The route was listed by UNESCO in 2010 as a series of sites, and the hacienda is one of them; its old buildings, chapel and walls hint at the wealth and power once concentrated here.
Read the complete Former hacienda of Chichimequillas write-up.
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Former hacienda of Chichimequillas comes up about 31 km into the recorded legs. Next is Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist.
North of the city of Querétaro, the land rises into dry hills dotted with cactus, mesquite and the remains of old haciendas. These estates were the economic engines of colonial Mexico, producing grain, livestock and pulque for the cities and mines of the north. The chapel of the former Hacienda of Buenavista stands in this landscape near the village of the same name, close to Santa Rosa Jáuregui, and it is part of the UNESCO-listed Camino Real de Tierra Adentro.
Read the complete Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist write-up.
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about 48 km into the recorded legs you reach Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist. Next is back through Former hacienda of Chichimequillas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Former hacienda of Chichimequillas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Former hacienda of Chichimequillas, late in the day. Next is Historic centre of the city of Querétaro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic centre of the city of Querétaro write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Historic centre of the city of Querétaro. That is the ride.
Historic centre of the city of Querétaro → Former hacienda of Chichimequillas is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Former hacienda of Chichimequillas → Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist → back through Former hacienda of Chichimequillas is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Former hacienda of Chichimequillas → Historic centre of the city of Querétaro is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.