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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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66 km from Nerpio to Nerpio, about 1 h 08 of riding. It goes by way of Abrigo de las Cañadas II, Río frío and back through Abrigo de las Cañadas II. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Everything about Nerpio feels remote, and Mingarnao pushes the feeling a little further. The shelter sits in the Sierra de Segura, where the road ends and tracks wander over limestone ridges, through pine woods and past small farms. A scattering of hamlets, such as Yeste, Letur and Nerpio itself, are the nearest signs of life, and the nearest big town in the data, Moratalla, is a long 38 km away. The sense of space is the point of coming here.
Read the complete mingarnao I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
mingarnao I is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de las Cañadas II.
Nerpio is about as remote as mainland Spain gets. The village sits in the far southwest corner of Albacete province, in the Sierra de Segura, where the mountains of Andalusia, Murcia and Castilla-La Mancha meet, and the rock shelters scattered around it make up one of the richest concentrations of prehistoric art in the region. The Abrigo de las Cañadas II belongs to that group, an overhang in the hills between Nerpio and the high plateaus toward Huéscar and Yeste.
Read the complete Abrigo de las Cañadas II write-up.
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Abrigo de las Cañadas II comes up about 16 km into the recorded legs. Next is Río frío.
Cold water is a rare luxury in southern Spain, and a stream called Río Frío promises exactly that. It is a land of pine forests, limestone crags, deep river gorges and tiny villages, and the painted rock shelters scattered through these hills are part of the UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula.
Read the complete Río frío write-up.
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about 33 km into the recorded legs you reach Río frío. Next is back through Abrigo de las Cañadas II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de las Cañadas II write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de las Cañadas II, late in the day. Next is mingarnao I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete mingarnao I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at mingarnao I. That is the ride.
mingarnao I → Abrigo de las Cañadas II is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de las Cañadas II → Río frío is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Río frío → back through Abrigo de las Cañadas II is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de las Cañadas II → mingarnao I is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.