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 308 km round trip from Hohenau - roughly 5 h 50 in the saddle. On the way it passes Nuestra Señora de Loreto, Santa María la Mayor and back through Nuestra Señora de Loreto. It crosses from Paraguay into Argentina - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
In the south-east of Paraguay, near the Parana river and the Argentine border, a field of red earth, tall trees and golden sandstone walls marks the site of La Santisima Trinidad de Parana, one of the largest of the Jesuit missions built among the Guarani people in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The ruins are about nine kilometres from Hohenau, a small town of just over five thousand people, and not far from Trinidad village and Jesus, where another mission stands.
Read the complete Jesuit Mission of La Santísima Trinidad de write-up.
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Jesuit Mission of La Santísima Trinidad de is where the day begins. Next is Nuestra Señora de Loreto.
The ruins of Loreto lie in a clearing in the forest of Misiones, in the north-east tip of Argentina, and the forest is slowly winning. Strangler figs and giant roots creep over the red sandstone walls of what was once a church, and the grass grows over the plaza where thousands of Guarani people once lived. Loreto was one of the Jesuit missions, the reducciones, that the Society of Jesus founded in the early seventeenth century in the lands of the Guarani, in what is now Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. This one was moved to its present site in 1632 after raids by slave hunters from Brazil.
Read the complete Nuestra Señora de Loreto write-up.
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Nuestra Señora de Loreto comes up about 60 km into the recorded legs. Next is Santa María la Mayor.
Red earth is the first thing you notice in Misiones, the thin finger of northeastern Argentina squeezed between Paraguay and Brazil. The soil is the colour of a brick, the forest is subtropical, and the roads cut through it leave long scarlet stripes on the verge. Santa María la Mayor, a small town of under two thousand, lies in this country, and its main attraction is a ruin the forest nearly swallowed.
Read the complete Santa María la Mayor write-up.
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about 154 km into the recorded legs you reach Santa María la Mayor. Next is back through Nuestra Señora de Loreto.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Nuestra Señora de Loreto write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Nuestra Señora de Loreto, late in the day. Next is Jesuit Mission of La Santísima Trinidad de.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Jesuit Mission of La Santísima Trinidad de write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Jesuit Mission of La Santísima Trinidad de. That is the ride.
Jesuit Mission of La Santísima Trinidad de → Nuestra Señora de Loreto is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nuestra Señora de Loreto → Santa María la Mayor is 94 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Santa María la Mayor → back through Nuestra Señora de Loreto is 94 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Nuestra Señora de Loreto → Jesuit Mission of La Santísima Trinidad de is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.