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 229 km round trip from Obón - roughly 4 h 07 in the saddle. On the way it passes Covacho esquemático, Abric del mas de Barberà and back through Covacho esquemático. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
You reach La Coquinera through some of the emptiest country in Spain. The rock shelter lies in the hills of the Río Martín Cultural Park, in the triangle between Oliete, Estercuel and Alacón, where the Martín river and its side ravines have sliced the Teruel plateau into terraces, cliffs and narrow gorges. The paintings here belong to the same Mediterranean tradition as the dozens of other panels in the park, figures of animals and people in ochre red, small enough that you have to stand close and let your eyes adjust before they emerge from the stone.
Read the complete La Coquinera write-up.
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La Coquinera is where the day begins. Next is Covacho esquemático.
Some shelters hide in plain sight, and the covacho esquemático is one of them, a shallow overhang in the limestone above the Río Martín, with a few schematic figures painted in red. Schematic art is the shorthand of prehistory, stripped to essentials: a stick-like human, a dot, a zigzag, a sun disc. It belongs to a later phase than the more naturalistic hunting scenes of the Levantine tradition, and it is found across the Iberian peninsula, here in the district around Alacón and Oliete in Teruel province, which forms part of the Río Martín Cultural Park.
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Covacho esquemático comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric del mas de Barberà.
Alcañiz is the capital of the Bajo Aragón, a region of olive groves, cereal fields and dry hills crossed by the Guadalope river in the south-east of Aragón. The town is crowned by a castle built for the Order of Calatrava, now a parador, and its main square, with a Gothic loggia and the town hall, is one of the finest in the region. The shelter of the Mas de Barberà lies in the hills just outside town, toward Castelserás and Calanda.
Read the complete Abric del mas de Barberà write-up.
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about 115 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric del mas de Barberà. Next is back through Covacho esquemático.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Covacho esquemático write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Covacho esquemático, late in the day. Next is La Coquinera.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Coquinera write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at La Coquinera. That is the ride.
La Coquinera → Covacho esquemático is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Covacho esquemático → Abric del mas de Barberà is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del mas de Barberà → back through Covacho esquemático is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Covacho esquemático → La Coquinera is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.