Why this ride
The stops in between: 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 suits an unhurried touring pace.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Huiricuta: Mucuyahue and Cuhixu Uheni · 595 km
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 595 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 13 h 52
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Huiricuta: Mucuyahue is where the day begins. Next is Tuy Mayau.
2. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Tuy Mayau comes up about 102 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cuhixu Uheni.
3. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 296 km into the recorded legs you reach Cuhixu Uheni. Next is back through Tuy Mayau.
4. back through Tuy Mayau
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tuy Mayau write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Tuy Mayau, late in the day. Next is Huiricuta: Mucuyahue.
5. Huiricuta: Mucuyahue
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Huiricuta: Mucuyahue write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Huiricuta: Mucuyahue. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Huiricuta: Mucuyahue to Tuy Mayau
Huiricuta: Mucuyahue → Tuy Mayau is 102 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Tuy Mayau to Cuhixu Uheni
Tuy Mayau → Cuhixu Uheni is 194 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cuhixu Uheni to back through Tuy Mayau
Cuhixu Uheni → back through Tuy Mayau is 157 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Tuy Mayau to Huiricuta: Mucuyahue
back through Tuy Mayau → Huiricuta: Mucuyahue is 141 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.