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 178 km round trip from Yacuanquer - roughly 4 h 17 in the saddle. The stops in between: Rosal de Chapal, La Cofradía and back through Rosal de Chapal. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 3,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Pasto sits at the foot of Galeras, an active volcano of more than 4,200 metres that has rumbled and smoked on and off for centuries, and the farm country around it lies in the shadow of that mountain. Los Ajos is a rural spot in this southern Colombian highland, in the department of Nariño, a few kilometres from the small towns of Yacuanquer and Tangua.
Read the complete Los Ajos write-up.
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Los Ajos is where the day begins. Next is Rosal de Chapal.
High in the department of Nariño, in Colombia's far southwest, the land folds into deep canyons cut by the Guáitara River, and the old Inca road, the Qhapaq Ñan, threads along the slopes. Rosal de Chapal is one of the surviving fragments of that road on the Colombian side, a stretch of track near the small towns of Funes, Iles and Contadero. The Qhapaq Ñan, a network of roads that tied the Inca empire together from present day Colombia to Chile and Argentina, was inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2014, and Nariño holds its northernmost sections.
Read the complete Rosal de Chapal write-up.
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Rosal de Chapal comes up about 53 km into the recorded legs. Next is La Cofradía.
Down in Colombia's far south, close to the border with Ecuador, the Andes spread into a high, rumpled plateau of small fields stitched together by hedges, with deep canyons cut into it by rivers rushing towards the Pacific and the Amazon. La Cofradía lies here in the department of Nariño, between Gualmatán and Contadero, at the height of the old Inca road network, the Qhapaq Ñan, which reached this far north as the empire's frontier pushed into what is now Colombia. A few stretches of the road around here are part of the Qhapaq Ñan World Heritage site.
Read the complete La Cofradía write-up.
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about 90 km into the recorded legs you reach La Cofradía. Next is back through Rosal de Chapal.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rosal de Chapal write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Rosal de Chapal, late in the day. Next is Los Ajos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Los Ajos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Los Ajos. That is the ride.
Los Ajos → Rosal de Chapal is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rosal de Chapal → La Cofradía is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Cofradía → back through Rosal de Chapal is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Rosal de Chapal → Los Ajos is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.