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 666 km round trip from Villa de Guadalupe - roughly 17 h 00 in the saddle. On the way it passes Huacuri Quitenie, Tuy Mayau, Nihuetaritsié and Cuhixu Uheni. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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.
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Huiricuta: Maxa Yaritsié is where the day begins. Next is Huacuri Quitenie.
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.
Read the complete Huacuri Quitenie write-up.
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Huacuri Quitenie comes up about 76 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 111 km into the recorded legs you reach Tuy Mayau. 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, 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.
Read the complete Cuhixu Uheni write-up.
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Cuhixu Uheni sits at 181 km, about halfway. Next is back through Nihuetaritsié.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Nihuetaritsié write-up.
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back through Nihuetaritsié comes up about 377 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Tuy Mayau.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tuy Mayau write-up.
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about 516 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Tuy Mayau. Next is back through Huacuri Quitenie.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Huacuri Quitenie write-up.
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back through Huacuri Quitenie, 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.
The route ends here after 666 km.
Huiricuta: Maxa Yaritsié → Huacuri Quitenie is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Huacuri Quitenie → Tuy Mayau is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tuy Mayau → Nihuetaritsié is 177 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nihuetaritsié → Cuhixu Uheni is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cuhixu Uheni → back through Nihuetaritsié is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Nihuetaritsié → back through Tuy Mayau is 139 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tuy Mayau → back through Huacuri Quitenie is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Huacuri Quitenie → Huiricuta: Maxa Yaritsié is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.