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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From Villa de Guadalupe it runs 632 km to Villa de Guadalupe; allow about 14 h 58 of riding. It goes by way of Tuy Mayau, Cuhixu Uheni and back through Tuy Mayau. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Wirikuta, or Huiricuta, is the sacred desert of the Wixárika people, a high, arid plain at the foot of the Sierra de Catorce in San Luis Potosí. In Wixárika belief, it is the place where the sun was born, and each year pilgrims travel here from their homeland in the Sierra Madre Occidental, hundreds of kilometres away, to collect hikuri, the peyote cactus, which plays a central role in their ceremonies, and to leave offerings at sacred sites. Maxa Yaritsié is one of those sites. The Cerro del Quemado, the burnt hill, rising above the desert near Real de Catorce, is the most sacred of all, the place where the sun first rose. Visitors should behave with respect: these are living religious sites, not tourist attractions, and collecting peyote is illegal for non-indigenous people and deeply offensive to the Wixárika.
Read the complete Huiricuta: Maxa Yaritsié write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Huiricuta: Maxa Yaritsié is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 121 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Cuhixu Uheni write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 316 km into the recorded legs you reach Cuhixu Uheni. Next is back through Tuy Mayau.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tuy Mayau write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Tuy Mayau, late in the day. Next is Huiricuta: Maxa Yaritsié.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Huiricuta: Maxa Yaritsié write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Huiricuta: Maxa Yaritsié. That is the ride.
Huiricuta: Maxa Yaritsié → Tuy Mayau is 121 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Tuy Mayau → Cuhixu Uheni is 195 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cuhixu Uheni → back through Tuy Mayau is 158 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Tuy Mayau → Huiricuta: Maxa Yaritsié is 159 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.