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 309 km round trip from Hohenau - roughly 5 h 51 in the saddle. It goes by way of 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.
The Jesuit mission of Santisima Trinidad de Parana lies on a low hill in southern Paraguay, in the department of Itapua, and the stone ruins that remain are some of the most atmospheric in South America. It was founded in 1706 as one of the reducciones, the mission towns in which Jesuit priests gathered the Guarani people into settled communities, and it grew into one of the largest. At its height, several thousand people lived here around a vast central plaza, with a great church, a cemetery, a school, workshops, a college and rows of houses. The red sandstone church, begun in the 1740s, was decorated with carved figures, including angels playing musical instruments, and parts of its facade and pulpit remain.
Read the complete Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad d write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad d 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
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 Missions of La Santísima Trinidad d.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad d write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad d. That is the ride.
Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad d → 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 Missions of La Santísima Trinidad d is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.