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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From San Luis Potosí it runs 362 km to San Luis Potosí; allow about 6 h 32 of riding. The stops in between: Town of Pinos, Chapel of San Nicolás Tolentino of the for, Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of and back through Chapel of San Nicolás Tolentino of the for. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 98 km into the recorded legs. Next is Chapel of San Nicolás Tolentino of the for.
On the high plateau of southern Zacatecas, close to the border with San Luis Potosí, the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro passed through a dry landscape of grassland, yucca and nopal cactus, linking Mexico City with the silver mines of the north. Haciendas grew up along the way, and the former Hacienda of San Nicolás de Quijas, with its chapel dedicated to San Nicolás Tolentino, is one of the sites inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2010 as part of the royal road. The chapel, with its simple façade, bell gable and adobe walls, stands in a small village surrounded by fields and open range.
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about 126 km into the recorded legs you reach Chapel of San Nicolás Tolentino of the for. 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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Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of, about halfway. Next is back through Chapel of San Nicolás Tolentino of the for.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chapel of San Nicolás Tolentino of the for write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Chapel of San Nicolás Tolentino of the for sits at 222 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 263 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 98 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Town of Pinos → Chapel of San Nicolás Tolentino of the for is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chapel of San Nicolás Tolentino of the for → Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of → back through Chapel of San Nicolás Tolentino of the for is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chapel of San Nicolás Tolentino of the for → back through Town of Pinos is 27 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.