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 279 km round trip from Villa de Ramos - roughly 5 h 25 in the saddle. The stops in between: Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali, Former hacienda of Pabellón de Hidalgo and back through Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
Read the complete Huahuatsari write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Huahuatsari is where the day begins. Next is Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali.
The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Road of the Interior, ran for more than two and a half thousand kilometres from Mexico City to Santa Fe in what is now New Mexico, and carried silver, mercury, supplies and missionaries for nearly three hundred years. UNESCO inscribed a series of its sections and sites in 2010, and the stretch near Ojocaliente, in the state of Zacatecas, passes through high, dry country at around two thousand metres, with the town of Trancoso eight kilometres away and the city of Zacatecas to the west.
Read the complete Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali comes up about 69 km into the recorded legs. Next is Former hacienda of Pabellón de Hidalgo.
Pabellón de Hidalgo is a small town in the north of the state of Aguascalientes, and its old hacienda has a moment of national drama attached to it. In January 1811, after the insurgent army of Miguel Hidalgo was routed by royalist forces at the Battle of Puente de Calderón near Guadalajara, the retreating leaders met here, at the Hacienda de San Blas de Pabellón. Exhausted and defeated, they stripped Hidalgo of his military command and handed it to Ignacio Allende, who had long resented the priest's leadership. A few weeks later both were captured in the north, and by the summer both had been executed. The War of Independence would go on for another decade without them.
Read the complete Former hacienda of Pabellón de Hidalgo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 139 km into the recorded legs you reach Former hacienda of Pabellón de Hidalgo. Next is back through Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali, late in the day. Next is Huahuatsari.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Huahuatsari write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Huahuatsari. That is the ride.
Huahuatsari → Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali → Former hacienda of Pabellón de Hidalgo is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Former hacienda of Pabellón de Hidalgo → back through Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali → Huahuatsari is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.