CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 384 km round trip from San Luis Potosí - roughly 7 h 01 in the saddle. It goes by way of Town of Pinos, Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of, Huahuatsari and back through Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of. 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.
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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 99 km into the recorded legs. Next is Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of.
The high plateau of central Mexico, known as the Mesa Central, is a landscape of dry grass, mesquite, nopal cactus and low volcanic hills, and the village of Noria de Angeles, in the state of Zacatecas, sits in the middle of it, about eight kilometres from Villa Gonzalez Ortega.
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about 140 km into the recorded legs you reach Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of. Next is Huahuatsari.
Every year, Wixárika pilgrims, the people often called Huichol, walk or travel hundreds of kilometres from their homeland in the Sierra Madre Occidental to Wirikuta, a sacred desert in San Luis Potosí, where they gather peyote and make offerings at sacred places along the way. Huahuatsari is one of the sacred sites on this route, in the high desert near Villa de Ramos. The pilgrimage route has been placed on Mexico's tentative list for World Heritage, and the sites along it are places of prayer, not tourist attractions.
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Huahuatsari, about halfway. Next is back through Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of sits at 255 km, about halfway. 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 comes up about 285 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Historic centre of the city of San Luis Po closes the day.
Historic centre of the city of San Luis Po → Town of Pinos is 99 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Town of Pinos → Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of → Huahuatsari is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Huahuatsari → back through Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of → back through Town of Pinos is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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.