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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From Villa de Ramos it runs 459 km to Villa de Ramos; allow about 7 h 54 of riding. It goes by way of Tatei Matiniere, Natsitacua, Tuy Mayau and back through Natsitacua. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Tatei Matiniere comes up about 85 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 150 km into the recorded legs you reach Natsitacua. Next is Tuy Mayau.
Out in the high desert of San Luis Potosí, near the town of Charcas, lies a landscape that for the Wixárika people, often called the Huichol, is the most sacred place on earth. Wirikuta is the land where, in their cosmology, the sun was born, and each year pilgrims walk or travel hundreds of kilometres from their homeland in the Sierra Madre Occidental of Jalisco and Nayarit to reach it, visiting a chain of sacred springs, hills and other sites along the way.
Read the complete Tuy Mayau write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Tuy Mayau, about halfway. Next is back through Natsitacua.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Natsitacua write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Natsitacua sits at 307 km, about halfway. Next is back through Tatei Matiniere.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tatei Matiniere write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Tatei Matiniere comes up about 374 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Huahuatsari closes the day.
Huahuatsari → Tatei Matiniere is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tatei Matiniere → Natsitacua is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Natsitacua → Tuy Mayau is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tuy Mayau → back through Natsitacua is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Natsitacua → back through Tatei Matiniere is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tatei Matiniere → Huahuatsari is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.