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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433 km from Totana to Totana, about 8 h 37 of riding. On the way it passes Los Grajos, Cueva de los Pucheros, Abrigo de los Cortijos and Abrigo del mediodía I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Maina is an obscure name on the map in the Murcian hills north-west of Totana, where the Sierra Espuña rises above the valley of the Guadalentín. It refers to a rock shelter or painted site in the dry limestone country, part of the cluster of prehistoric art sites around here included in the World Heritage listing of Levantine rock art. As with many such places, there is often little to see without a guide, but the landscape around it is worth the ride.
Read the complete maina write-up.
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maina is where the day begins. Next is Los Grajos.
Jackdaws gave this place its name, grajos in Spanish, and they still wheel and chatter around the limestone cliffs where prehistoric people once sheltered and painted. Los Grajos lies in the hills near Alhama de Murcia, in the valley of the Guadalentín, where dry mountains rise above a plain of orchards, greenhouses and towns. The rock shelters here hold paintings in the Levantine style, and access is generally restricted to protect them.
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Los Grajos comes up about 43 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva de los Pucheros.
North-west of Cieza, the Segura river cuts through a dry landscape of limestone ridges, almond and fruit orchards, and rice fields that look out of place in arid Murcia. The Cueva de los Pucheros, a rock shelter in these hills between Cieza and Calasparra, is one of the many sites in the region holding prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Like most of these shelters, it is fragile and often protected by a fence, and access may require a guided visit arranged through the local authorities.
Read the complete Cueva de los Pucheros write-up.
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about 99 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva de los Pucheros. Next is Abrigo de los Cortijos.
Hellín is a town in the south-east of Albacete province, on the edge of the dry plains of La Mancha, where the landscape breaks into hills and ravines on its way down to the Segura river. Its old town climbs a hill crowned by a castle, and its streets are lined with houses from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Abrigo de los Cortijos lies in the hills about nine kilometres from the town, toward Albatana and Tobarra.
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Abrigo de los Cortijos, about halfway. Next is Abrigo del mediodía I.
North of Yecla, where the Murcia region meets Albacete, the land rises into a series of isolated limestone hills above a wide, dry plain of vineyards and almond groves. The rock shelters scattered through this country, including the Abrigo del Mediodía, are part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean Iberian rock art. The best known cluster is on Monte Arabí, a striking, isolated rock mountain north of the town, whose Cantos de la Visera shelters hold both Levantine and schematic paintings.
Read the complete Abrigo del mediodía I write-up.
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Abrigo del mediodía I sits at 178 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de los Cortijos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Cortijos write-up.
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back through Abrigo de los Cortijos comes up about 286 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Cueva de los Pucheros.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de los Pucheros write-up.
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about 335 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Cueva de los Pucheros. Next is back through Los Grajos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Los Grajos write-up.
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back through Los Grajos, late in the day. Next is maina.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete maina write-up.
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The route ends here after 433 km.
maina → Los Grajos is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Los Grajos → Cueva de los Pucheros is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de los Pucheros → Abrigo de los Cortijos is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de los Cortijos → Abrigo del mediodía I is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del mediodía I → back through Abrigo de los Cortijos is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de los Cortijos → back through Cueva de los Pucheros is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de los Pucheros → back through Los Grajos is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Los Grajos → maina is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.