CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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It goes by way of Huiricuta: Mucuyahue, Uxa Tequipa, Nihuetaritsié and Cuhixu Uheni. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Somewhere in the creosote flats north of Charcas, in San Luis Potosí, the land that the Wixárika people call Wirikuta begins to feel different, even to a visitor who knows nothing of its meaning. The horizon widens, the mountains of the Sierra de Catorce rise to the east, and on a clear morning the whole desert seems to hum. Huacuri Quitenie is one of the sacred places along the Wixárika pilgrimage route to Wirikuta, where pilgrims stop to pray and leave offerings on their way to Leunar, the hill they call Cerro Quemado, where the sun was born.
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Huacuri Quitenie is where the day begins. Next is Huiricuta: Mucuyahue.
In the high desert of San Luis Potosí, below the mountains of the Sierra de Catorce, lies Wirikuta, the most sacred landscape of the Wixárika people, better known as the Huichol. Every year, pilgrims walk or drive hundreds of kilometres from their homes in the mountains of Jalisco and Nayarit to this semi-desert, following a route they believe their ancestors travelled at the beginning of time. According to their tradition, the sun was born on the hill called Cerro Quemado above Real de Catorce, and the desert is where they come to collect hikuri, the peyote cactus, which they consider a sacred plant and use in ceremonies. The various sacred sites along the pilgrimage, including this one, are on Mexico's tentative list for World Heritage.
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Huiricuta: Mucuyahue comes up 49 km in. Next is Uxa Tequipa.
In the high desert of northern San Luis Potosí, among creosote bush, yucca and endless sky, lies a landscape that is sacred to the Wixárika, the people outsiders often call the Huichol. Every year, pilgrims walk or travel hundreds of kilometres from their homes in the Sierra Madre Occidental of Jalisco and Nayarit to Wirikuta, the place where, in their cosmology, the sun was born. Along the way they stop at a sequence of sacred sites, springs, rocks and hills, each with its own name, offerings and rituals. Uxa Tequipa is one of these places, and the route as a whole has been proposed for the UNESCO list as Huiricuta, the Wixárika sacred route.
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99 km in you reach Uxa Tequipa. 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.
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Nihuetaritsié, about halfway. Next is Cuhixu Uheni.
Every year, groups of Wixárika pilgrims, the people known to outsiders as the Huichol, walk hundreds of kilometres from their homeland in the mountains of Jalisco and Nayarit to Wirikuta, a sacred desert in San Luis Potosí. The route crosses a chain of sacred places, springs, hills and rocks, where offerings are left and ceremonies performed, and Cuhixu Uheni, near the small town of Villa de Ramos, is one of them. The pilgrimage route as a whole has been put forward for World Heritage status as a living cultural landscape.
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Cuhixu Uheni sits at 198 km, about halfway. Next is back through Nihuetaritsié.
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back through Nihuetaritsié comes up 247 km in. Next is back through Uxa Tequipa.
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296 km in you reach back through Uxa Tequipa. Next is back through Huiricuta: Mucuyahue.
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back through Huiricuta: Mucuyahue, late in the day. Next is Huacuri Quitenie.
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The route ends here after 706 km.
Huacuri Quitenie → Huiricuta: Mucuyahue is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Huiricuta: Mucuyahue → Uxa Tequipa is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Uxa Tequipa → Nihuetaritsié is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nihuetaritsié → Cuhixu Uheni is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cuhixu Uheni → back through Nihuetaritsié is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Nihuetaritsié → back through Uxa Tequipa is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Uxa Tequipa → back through Huiricuta: Mucuyahue is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Huiricuta: Mucuyahue → Huacuri Quitenie is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.