CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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345 km from María to María, about 7 h 16 of riding. On the way it passes Letreros, Letreros de los mártires, Río frío and back through Letreros de los mártires. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
In the mountains of northern Almería, near the village of Vélez-Blanco, the Cueva de los Letreros holds a small painted figure that has become the symbol of the province: the Indalo, a human figure holding an arc over its head, which locals paint on houses as a good luck charm. The rock shelters around Vélez-Blanco, including the one known as Tello I or Cama del Pastor, the shepherd's bed, are part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing, with paintings ranging from Levantine scenes to schematic signs. The landscape is dry and rugged, with the limestone mass of the Sierra de María rising above.
Read the complete L. Tello I. Cama del Pastor write-up.
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L. Tello I. Cama del Pastor is where the day begins. Next is Letreros.
There is a little figure on a postcard from Almería that you will see on car stickers, jewellery and shop signs across the province, and it started here. The Indalo, a stick-like man holding an arch above his head, is the symbol of Almería, and it comes from a painting in the Cueva de los Letreros near Vélez-Blanco. The painted figure, called the Brujo or Sorcerer, was found in the early twentieth century, and local people adopted the shape as a good-luck charm and a mark of local pride.
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Letreros comes up 37 km in. Next is Letreros de los mártires.
Out in the high north-east of Granada province, Huéscar feels a long way from the Alhambra and the beaches of the Costa Tropical. This is the altiplano, a broad upland of wheat fields, almond trees and pale badlands at around a thousand metres, ringed by mountains, with the great limestone hump of La Sagra rising to the north. The rock shelter called Letreros de los Mártires lies in this country, a dozen or so kilometres from the town.
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73 km in you reach Letreros de los mártires. Next is Río frío.
Cold water is a rare luxury in southern Spain, and a stream called Río Frío promises exactly that. It is a land of pine forests, limestone crags, deep river gorges and tiny villages, and the painted rock shelters scattered through these hills are part of the UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula.
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Río frío, about halfway. Next is back through Letreros de los mártires.
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Read the complete Letreros de los mártires write-up.
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back through Letreros de los mártires sits at 147 km, about halfway. Next is back through Letreros.
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Read the complete Letreros write-up.
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back through Letreros comes up 183 km in. Next is L. Tello I. Cama del Pastor, 37 km on.
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Read the complete L. Tello I. Cama del Pastor write-up.
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L. Tello I. Cama del Pastor closes the day.
L. Tello I. Cama del Pastor → Letreros is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Letreros → Letreros de los mártires is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Letreros de los mártires → Río frío is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Río frío → back through Letreros de los mártires is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Letreros de los mártires → back through Letreros is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Letreros → L. Tello I. Cama del Pastor is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.