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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
291 km from Ojuelos de Jalisco to Ojuelos de Jalisco, about 5 h 26 of riding. The stops in between: Town of Pinos, Nihuetaritsié and back through Town of Pinos. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Ojuelos de Jalisco lies on the high, dry plateau where Jalisco meets Aguascalientes, Zacatecas and Guanajuato, at over two thousand metres, a land of grassland, nopal cactus, mesquite and wide horizons. The town owes its existence to the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the royal road that carried silver north from the mines of Zacatecas and supplies from Mexico City, eventually reaching all the way to Santa Fe in what is now New Mexico. UNESCO listed a series of sites along the road in 2010, including the historic ensemble of Ojuelos.
Read the complete Historic ensemble of the Town of Ojuelos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Historic ensemble of the Town of Ojuelos 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.
Read the complete Town of Pinos write-up.
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Town of Pinos comes up about 51 km into the recorded legs. Next is Nihuetaritsié.
High desert stretches away in every direction here, dotted with yucca, nopal cactus and mesquite, under a sky that seems twice as big as anywhere else. For centuries the Wixárika have made pilgrimages from their homeland in the Sierra Madre Occidental across these plains to Wirikuta, the sacred desert near Real de Catorce, stopping at springs, hills and other holy places along the way. This is one of those places, a spot that matters in their ritual geography even if, to an outsider, it looks like empty desert.
Read the complete Nihuetaritsié write-up.
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about 146 km into the recorded legs you reach Nihuetaritsié. 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 ensemble of the Town of Ojuelos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic ensemble of the Town of Ojuelos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Historic ensemble of the Town of Ojuelos. That is the ride.
Historic ensemble of the Town of Ojuelos → Town of Pinos is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Town of Pinos → Nihuetaritsié is 95 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Nihuetaritsié → back through Town of Pinos is 94 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Town of Pinos → Historic ensemble of the Town of Ojuelos is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.