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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From Yacuanquer it runs 310 km to Yacuanquer; allow about 8 h 01 of riding. It goes by way of Rosal de Chapal, La Cofradía, Chitarran and San Pedro. 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.
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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 Chitarran.
In the high Andes of southern Colombia, near the border with Ecuador, the Inca road network reached its northern limit. The Qhapaq Ñan, as the system is called, stretched from here to central Chile, and a few segments in the department of Nariño are part of the UNESCO listing of 2014. Chitarrán is one of these, a stretch of old road near the villages of Córdoba, Contadero and Iles, in a landscape of green hills, ravines and patchwork fields at altitudes of over two thousand metres.
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Chitarran, about halfway. Next is San Pedro.
Ipiales is the last big Colombian town before Ecuador, and the high, cold plateau around it is some of the most dramatic farmland in the Andes. San Pedro lies a little north-west of the city, in a landscape of terraces, small farms and green slopes that tilt toward the canyon of the Guáitara river. The land is at about 2,900 metres and above, so mornings begin with frost on the grass and a hard blue sky.
Read the complete San Pedro write-up.
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San Pedro sits at 89 km, about halfway. Next is back through Chitarran.
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Read the complete Chitarran write-up.
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back through Chitarran comes up about 191 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through La Cofradía.
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Read the complete La Cofradía write-up.
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about 221 km into the recorded legs you reach back through La Cofradía. Next is back through Rosal de Chapal.
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Read the complete Rosal de Chapal write-up.
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back through Rosal de Chapal, late in the day. Next is Los Ajos.
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Read the complete Los Ajos write-up.
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The route ends here after 310 km.
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 → Chitarran is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chitarrán → San Pedro is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
San Pedro → back through Chitarran is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chitarran → back through La Cofradía is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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.