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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86 km from María to María, about 2 h 16 of riding. On the way it passes Lázar, Cueva del Tio Labrador and back through Lázar. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Indalo is everywhere in Almería: a little stick figure holding an arc over its head, painted on houses, sold as a souvenir and used as the symbol of the province. It comes from a rock shelter near Vélez-Blanco, the Cueva de los Letreros, where it was painted in prehistoric times, and the area around the village is rich in rock art, part of the World Heritage rock art of the Mediterranean. The shelters around Santonje, near the villages of María and Vélez-Blanco, are among them.
Read the complete Izquierda E. de Santonje write-up.
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Izquierda E. de Santonje is where the day begins. Next is Lázar.
The Vélez comarca in northern Almería sits high and dry, a land of almond trees, steppe and pale limestone ranges that feels more like the Castilian interior than the beach resorts of the south coast. Lázar lies in this country, near the villages of María and Vélez-Blanco, within the Sierra María-Los Vélez natural park. The area is known for some of the most important prehistoric art in Andalusia, and the best-known symbol is the Indalo, a little stick figure holding an arc above its head, taken from a painting in the cave of Los Letreros near Vélez-Blanco and adopted as the emblem of the whole province.
Read the complete Lázar write-up.
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Lázar comes up about 15 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva del Tio Labrador.
Vélez-Rubio is a larger and busier place than its neighbour Vélez-Blanco, with seven thousand people, a lively main street, and a church that is a surprise in a town this size. The Church of the Encarnación, begun in the eighteenth century, has twin towers and a massive Baroque façade, usually described as the largest Baroque church in Almería, and its bulk dominates the roofs. It is a good place to start before riding up toward the mountains, because the fuel stations here are the nearest reliable ones for a long way.
Read the complete Cueva del Tio Labrador write-up.
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about 43 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva del Tio Labrador. Next is back through Lázar.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lázar write-up.
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back through Lázar, late in the day. Next is Izquierda E. de Santonje, 21 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Izquierda E. de Santonje write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Izquierda E. de Santonje. That is the ride.
Izquierda E. de Santonje → Lázar is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lázar → Cueva del Tio Labrador is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva del Tío Labrador → back through Lázar is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lázar → Izquierda E. de Santonje is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.