CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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On the way it passes Huiricuta: Maxa Yaritsié, Tuy Mayau, Natsitacua 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.
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.
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Huiricuta: Mucuyahue is where the day begins. Next is Huiricuta: Maxa Yaritsié.
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 comes up 51 km in. 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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101 km in you reach Tuy Mayau. 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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Natsitacua, about halfway. Next is back through Tuy Mayau.
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Read the complete Tuy Mayau write-up.
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back through Tuy Mayau sits at 202 km, about halfway. Next is back through Huiricuta: Maxa Yaritsié.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Huiricuta: Maxa Yaritsié write-up.
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back through Huiricuta: Maxa Yaritsié comes up 253 km in. Next is Huiricuta: Mucuyahue.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Huiricuta: Mucuyahue write-up.
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Huiricuta: Mucuyahue closes the day.
Huiricuta: Mucuyahue → Huiricuta: Maxa Yaritsié is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Huiricuta: Maxa Yaritsié → Tuy Mayau is 89 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Tuy Mayau → Natsitacua is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Natsitacua → back through Tuy Mayau is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tuy Mayau → back through Huiricuta: Maxa Yaritsié is 89 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Huiricuta: Maxa Yaritsié → Huiricuta: Mucuyahue is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.