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 315 km round trip from Camporrells - roughly 6 h 41 in the saddle. On the way it passes Mallata C, Covacho de Palluala and back through Mallata C. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The western edge of Catalonia, around Lleida, is fruit country. Irrigation canals bring water from the Pyrenean rivers to a broad, flat plain of orchards growing apples, pears and peaches, laid out in neat lines that stretch to the horizon. Les Coves lies in this area, close to the Aragonese border, between Alfarràs, Albelda and Algerri, where the valley of the Noguera Ribagorçana spills out of the hills and onto the plain.
Read the complete Les Coves write-up.
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Les Coves is where the day begins. Next is Mallata C.
Ontiñena is a small farming village on the Alcanadre river, at the edge of the Monegros, the dry, wind-scoured steppe of central Aragón. Out in the ravines around it, prehistoric people left painted figures in rock shelters, among them the site labelled Mallata C, one of the many small components of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean rock art. The paintings are small, simple and best seen with a local guide, and the walk there crosses a landscape that seems built for epic films: gypsum hills, eroded gullies and wide skies.
Read the complete Mallata C write-up.
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Mallata C comes up about 70 km into the recorded legs. Next is Covacho de Palluala.
Covacho is the Aragonese word for a small cave or overhang, and Palluala is one of the hillside patches near Alquézar that carry the old farming names of the valley. The shelter, a mere kilometre and a bit from the village, is probably the nearest to it of all the painted rocks on this list, which means you can leave the motorbike in the village and walk instead of making a project of it. As with its neighbours it belongs to the Levantine rock art of the Spanish Mediterranean, listed by UNESCO in 1998.
Read the complete Covacho de Palluala write-up.
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about 151 km into the recorded legs you reach Covacho de Palluala. Next is back through Mallata C.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mallata C write-up.
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back through Mallata C, late in the day. Next is Les Coves.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Les Coves write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Les Coves. That is the ride.
Les Coves → Mallata C is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Mallata C → Covacho de Palluala is 81 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Covacho de Palluala → back through Mallata C is 87 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Mallata C → Les Coves is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.