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 343 km round trip from San Luis Potosí - roughly 5 h 40 in the saddle. On the way it passes Town of Pinos, Bridge of Ojuelos and back through Town of Pinos. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The name Potosi was a marketing decision. When silver turned up in the hills east of the new Spanish settlement in the 1590s, the founders hoped that this town would rival the fabulous silver mountain of Potosi in what is now Bolivia, and so they borrowed the name and added San Luis, after Saint Louis. The mines at Cerro de San Pedro did not match the original, but they were good enough to make the town rich, and the historic centre of San Luis Potosi is full of the buildings that money bought: a baroque cathedral with twin towers, a Carmelite church with a tiled dome, and the arcades of the plazas, all in warm pink and ochre stone.
Read the complete Historic centre of the city of San Luis Po write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Historic centre of the city of San Luis Po is where the day begins. Next is Town of Pinos.
Pinos was a silver town before most of Mexico had towns at all. Founded in the late sixteenth century, after silver was found in the hills, it grew into an important mining centre on the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the royal road that ran north from Mexico City toward Santa Fe in New Mexico, carrying silver south and supplies and settlers north. The town is part of the UNESCO listing of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, and it is also a designated Pueblo Mágico, with colonial churches, cobbled streets and old mining buildings.
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Town of Pinos comes up about 98 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 171 km into the recorded legs you reach Bridge of Ojuelos. Next is back through Town of Pinos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Town of Pinos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Town of Pinos, late in the day. Next is Historic centre of the city of San Luis Po.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic centre of the city of San Luis Po write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Historic centre of the city of San Luis Po. That is the ride.
Historic centre of the city of San Luis Po → Town of Pinos is 98 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Town of Pinos → Bridge of Ojuelos is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Bridge of Ojuelos → back through Town of Pinos is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Town of Pinos → Historic centre of the city of San Luis Po is 99 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.