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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A 258 km round trip from María - roughly 4 h 25 in the saddle. On the way it passes Abrigo de los Gavilanes, Tejera and back through Abrigo de los Gavilanes. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Los Vélez, in the north of Almería, is wool and almond country, and its history is one of shepherds, noblemen and Moriscos. For centuries flocks of sheep moved between the winter grazing of the lowlands and the summer pastures of the high sierras along old drove roads, and the area had a thriving wool trade. The shelter here, one of a group around Vélez-Blanco, carries prehistoric paintings, belonging to the Levantine art tradition that UNESCO recognises.
Read the complete Lavadero Tello V write-up.
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Lavadero Tello V is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de los Gavilanes.
Gavilanes means sparrowhawks, and the name fits a shelter high on a limestone face above the dry country where Murcia meets Almería. The Abrigo de los Gavilanes lies in the hills west of Lorca, in an area scattered with painted shelters such as the Collado de la Cruz and Los Grajos, the jackdaws, and it is part of the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. The figures are small, red and schematic, painted by communities who farmed and herded here thousands of years ago.
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Abrigo de los Gavilanes comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tejera.
A tejera is a tile works, a kiln where roof tiles were baked from local clay, and the name is common across the dry south-east of Spain. The Tejera on your map is near Vélez-Blanco, about two kilometres from the village, in the country that falls away from the Sierra María towards the plain, where red soil, almond terraces and clumps of pine and juniper make up the view.
Read the complete Tejera write-up.
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about 131 km into the recorded legs you reach Tejera. Next is back through Abrigo de los Gavilanes.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Gavilanes write-up.
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back through Abrigo de los Gavilanes, late in the day. Next is Lavadero Tello V.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lavadero Tello V write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Lavadero Tello V. That is the ride.
Lavadero Tello V → Abrigo de los Gavilanes is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de los Gavilanes → Tejera is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tejera → back through Abrigo de los Gavilanes is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de los Gavilanes → Lavadero Tello V is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.