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 308 km round trip from Velez Rubio - roughly 8 h 50 in the saddle. The stops in between: Izquierda E. de Santonje, Abrigo de la fuente, Albrigo de Jutia I and back through Abrigo de la fuente. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The far north of Almería province is not the desert most people imagine. Around Vélez-Blanco and María the land rises into the Sierra de María-Los Vélez Natural Park, a range of limestone peaks with pine and holm oak forest, high plains of cereal and almond and villages that can see snow in winter. Los Paradores is one of the rock art sites in this area, part of the UNESCO listing of the Mediterranean Iberian rock art, and the region holds one of the most famous painted shelters in Spain, the Cueva de los Letreros, home of the Indalo, a stick figure holding an arc over its head that has become the symbol of Almería.
Read the complete Los Paradores write-up.
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Los Paradores is where the day begins. Next is Izquierda E. de Santonje, 31 km on.
The Indalo is everywhere in Almería: a little stick figure holding an arc over its head, painted on houses, sold as a souvenir and used as the symbol of the province. It comes from a rock shelter near Vélez-Blanco, the Cueva de los Letreros, where it was painted in prehistoric times, and the area around the village is rich in rock art, part of the World Heritage rock art of the Mediterranean. The shelters around Santonje, near the villages of María and Vélez-Blanco, are among them.
Read the complete Izquierda E. de Santonje write-up.
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Izquierda E. de Santonje comes up about 51 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de la fuente.
Nerpio is about as remote as it gets in southern Spain: a village in the far south-west corner of Albacete province, deep in the Sierra del Segura, close to the borders of Andalucía and Murcia. It sits in the valley of the Taibilla river, surrounded by mountains, with terraced fields, walnut trees and pine forests on the slopes. The Abrigo de la Fuente, the shelter of the spring, lies in the hills about eleven kilometres from the village.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente write-up.
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about 103 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de la fuente. Next is Albrigo de Jutia I.
Nerpio is about as far from anywhere as Spain gets. The village sits in the southern corner of the province of Albacete, where the Sierra de Segura and the mountains of Murcia and Granada meet, in a high valley cut by the Taibilla river. Around it, in the ravines and rock walls, are some of the most important prehistoric painted shelters in the country, and the Abrigo de Jutia is one of them. The Nerpio sites belong to the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin, and several of them, including the famous shelters of the Solana de las Covachas, show hunters, archers and animals painted in the Levantine style. Guided visits are organised from the village; ask locally about access and opening times, because the sites are protected and not all are open.
Read the complete Albrigo de Jutia I write-up.
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Albrigo de Jutia I, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de la fuente.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente write-up.
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back through Abrigo de la fuente sits at 123 km, about halfway. Next is back through Izquierda E. de Santonje, 31 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Izquierda E. de Santonje write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Izquierda E. de Santonje comes up about 255 km into the recorded legs. Next is Los Paradores.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Los Paradores write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Los Paradores closes the day.
Los Paradores → Izquierda E. de Santonje is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Izquierda E. de Santonje → Abrigo de la fuente is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la fuente → Albrigo de Jutia I is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Albrigo de Jutia I → back through Abrigo de la fuente is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la fuente → back through Izquierda E. de Santonje is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Izquierda E. de Santonje → Los Paradores is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.