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 136 km round trip from Puebla de Don Fadrique - roughly 2 h 52 in the saddle. On the way it passes Río frío, Cañada de la Cruz and back through Río frío. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
Read the complete Letreros de los mártires write-up.
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Letreros de los mártires is where the day begins. 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.
Read the complete Río frío write-up.
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Río frío comes up about 43 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cañada de la Cruz.
The Cañada de la Cruz is a high valley or drovers' pasture in the Segura mountains; cañada is the word for the traditional livestock routes and grazing grounds used by shepherds moving their flocks between summer and winter pastures, and this part of Spain has a long history of transhumance.
Read the complete Cañada de la Cruz write-up.
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about 67 km into the recorded legs you reach Cañada de la Cruz. Next is back through Río frío.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Río frío write-up.
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back through Río frío, late in the day. Next is Letreros de los mártires.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Letreros de los mártires write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Letreros de los mártires. That is the ride.
Letreros de los mártires → Río frío is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Río frío → Cañada de la Cruz is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cañada de la Cruz → back through Río frío is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Río frío → Letreros de los mártires is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.