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 171 km to Villa de Guadalupe; allow about 5 h 30 of riding. The stops in between: Huirjcuta: Raunax, Huiricuta: Mucuyahue and back through Huirjcuta: Raunax. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 Huirjcuta: Raunax.
For the Wixarika people, also known as the Huichol, the high desert of San Luis Potosí is the place where the sun was born, and every year pilgrims walk or travel hundreds of kilometres from their mountain villages in Jalisco and Nayarit to Wirikuta, a sacred landscape around the old mining town of Real de Catorce.
Read the complete Huirjcuta: Raunax write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Huirjcuta: Raunax comes up about 37 km into the recorded legs. Next is Huiricuta: Mucuyahue.
In the high desert of San Luis Potosí, below the mountains of the Sierra de Catorce, lies Wirikuta, the most sacred landscape of the Wixárika people, better known as the Huichol. Every year, pilgrims walk or drive hundreds of kilometres from their homes in the mountains of Jalisco and Nayarit to this semi-desert, following a route they believe their ancestors travelled at the beginning of time. According to their tradition, the sun was born on the hill called Cerro Quemado above Real de Catorce, and the desert is where they come to collect hikuri, the peyote cactus, which they consider a sacred plant and use in ceremonies. The various sacred sites along the pilgrimage, including this one, are on Mexico's tentative list for World Heritage.
Read the complete Huiricuta: Mucuyahue write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 77 km into the recorded legs you reach Huiricuta: Mucuyahue. Next is back through Huirjcuta: Raunax.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Huirjcuta: Raunax write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Huirjcuta: Raunax, 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 → Huirjcuta: Raunax is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Huirjcuta: Raunax → Huiricuta: Mucuyahue is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Huiricuta: Mucuyahue → back through Huirjcuta: Raunax is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Huirjcuta: Raunax → Huiricuta: Maxa Yaritsié is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.