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 347 km round trip from Mapimí - roughly 6 h 42 in the saddle. It goes by way of Town of San Pedro del Gallo, Chapel of San Mateo of the Former hacienda and back through Town of San Pedro del Gallo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The suspension bridge at Ojuela is the first thing most visitors see, and it hangs across a canyon in the desert of Durango like something out of a Western. Built in 1898 by the firm of the Roebling family, the engineers behind the Brooklyn Bridge, it spans about three hundred metres and carries the old mine track across the gorge to the entrance of the Ojuela mine. For years the bridge was in a bad state, and it has been restored for walkers, though you should cross carefully and listen to the guides.
Read the complete Mine of Ojuela write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Mine of Ojuela is where the day begins. Next is Town of San Pedro del Gallo.
San Pedro del Gallo is a very small town in a very big landscape, and that is precisely its appeal. Fewer than a thousand people live here, in the high desert of northern Durango, among dry plains, low mountains and endless sky, and the town grew up as a stop on the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the royal road that linked Mexico City with the northern frontier and Santa Fe. San Pedro del Gallo is one of the places included in the UNESCO listing of the Camino Real, with its church, simple adobe houses and the quiet atmosphere of a place where time moves slowly.
Read the complete Town of San Pedro del Gallo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Town of San Pedro del Gallo comes up about 89 km into the recorded legs. Next is Chapel of San Mateo of the Former hacienda.
Indé is a small town in northern Durango, and the chapel of San Mateo belonged to a hacienda that supplied the silver road. The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro ran for about 2,600 kilometres from Mexico City to Santa Fe, and this stretch crossed some of the driest country on the way. Around here the landscape is bajada and basin, with mesquite, huisache and prickly pear on the plains and dark mountain ranges in the distance. Rainfall is low, and the wells and springs that haciendas depended on decided where people could live.
Read the complete Chapel of San Mateo of the Former hacienda write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 173 km into the recorded legs you reach Chapel of San Mateo of the Former hacienda. Next is back through Town of San Pedro del Gallo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Town of San Pedro del Gallo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Town of San Pedro del Gallo, late in the day. Next is Mine of Ojuela.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mine of Ojuela write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Mine of Ojuela. That is the ride.
Mine of Ojuela → Town of San Pedro del Gallo is 89 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Town of San Pedro del Gallo → Chapel of San Mateo of the Former hacienda is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Chapel of San Mateo of the Former hacienda → back through Town of San Pedro del Gallo is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Town of San Pedro del Gallo → Mine of Ojuela is 89 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.