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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
72 km from Nerpio to Nerpio, about 1 h 14 of riding. The stops in between: Concejal I, Abrigo de la fuente and back through Concejal I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The name points to engineers, and in this corner of Albacete the likeliest explanation is water. The upper Segura and Taibilla valleys feed reservoirs and canals that supply towns and farms far down toward Murcia and the coast, and the people who built and maintained that system needed houses in a remote landscape. Las Casas de los Ingenieros sits some distance from Nerpio, in a quiet valley of pine, scrub and farmland, with a rock shelter nearby, and the whole area is dotted with painted shelters from the prehistoric past. Other shelters in the area carry the names of the people who first recorded them, a reminder of how recently some of these sites were noticed.
Read the complete Las Casas de las Ingenieros I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Las Casas de las Ingenieros I is where the day begins. Next is Concejal I.
Concejal is the name of a rock shelter in the sierra above Nerpio, a part of southern Albacete that most Spaniards have never visited. It is numbered I in a series of shelters, and its paintings belong to the Levantine tradition that UNESCO recognised in 1998. There is a Canto Blanco shelter in the same ride, a white rock that gives it its name, and the pair give a feel of how densely the land was used by prehistoric people.
Read the complete Concejal I write-up.
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Concejal I comes up about 17 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de la fuente.
Nerpio is about as remote as it gets in southern Spain: a village in the far south-west corner of Albacete province, deep in the Sierra del Segura, close to the borders of Andalucía and Murcia. It sits in the valley of the Taibilla river, surrounded by mountains, with terraced fields, walnut trees and pine forests on the slopes. The Abrigo de la Fuente, the shelter of the spring, lies in the hills about eleven kilometres from the village.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente write-up.
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about 37 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de la fuente. Next is back through Concejal I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Concejal I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Concejal I, late in the day. Next is Las Casas de las Ingenieros I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Las Casas de las Ingenieros I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Las Casas de las Ingenieros I. That is the ride.
Las Casas de las Ingenieros I → Concejal I is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Concejal I → Abrigo de la fuente is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la fuente → back through Concejal I is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Concejal I → Las Casas de las Ingenieros I is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.