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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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769 km from Villa de Ramos to Villa de Ramos, about 13 h 15 of riding. It goes by way of Tatei Matiniere, Natsitacua, Uxa Tequipa and Nihuetaritsié. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
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Huahuatsari is where the day begins. Next is Tatei Matiniere.
Every year, Wixárika pilgrims walk or drive hundreds of kilometres from their homeland in the Sierra Madre Occidental to the desert of Wirikuta in San Luis Potosí, where they collect peyote, the sacred cactus they call hikuri, and perform ceremonies to renew the world. Along the way, they stop at sacred places, and Tatei Matinieri, a group of springs in the semi-desert of the Altiplano, is one of the most important. The Wixárika route through these sacred sites was listed by UNESCO in 2025, recognising a living tradition that goes back centuries.
Read the complete Tatei Matiniere write-up.
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Tatei Matiniere comes up about 108 km into the recorded legs. Next is Natsitacua.
Every year, groups of Wixárika people, known in Spanish as Huichols, leave their homes in the Sierra Madre Occidental and walk, ride or drive hundreds of kilometres east to Wirikuta, the sacred desert in San Luis Potosí where, in their tradition, the sun was born. Along the way they stop at a series of sacred places, springs, hills and water holes, where they leave offerings and perform ceremonies. Natsitacua is one of these places, out on the high plains near the border of Zacatecas and San Luis Potosí, and the names of the neighbouring stops on the route, such as Nihuetaritsié, are in the Wixárika language.
Read the complete Natsitacua write-up.
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about 190 km into the recorded legs you reach Natsitacua. 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.
Read the complete Uxa Tequipa write-up.
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Uxa Tequipa, about halfway. 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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Nihuetaritsié sits at 386 km, about halfway. Next is back through Uxa Tequipa.
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Read the complete Uxa Tequipa write-up.
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back through Uxa Tequipa comes up about 524 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Natsitacua.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Natsitacua write-up.
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about 582 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Natsitacua. Next is back through Tatei Matiniere.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tatei Matiniere write-up.
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back through Tatei Matiniere, 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.
The route ends here after 769 km.
Huahuatsari → Tatei Matiniere is 108 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tatei Matiniere → Natsitacua is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Natsitacua → Uxa Tequipa is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Uxa Tequipa → Nihuetaritsié is 137 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nihuetaritsié → back through Uxa Tequipa is 137 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Uxa Tequipa → back through Natsitacua is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Natsitacua → back through Tatei Matiniere is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tatei Matiniere → Huahuatsari is 108 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.