CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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On the way it passes Huacuri Quitenie, Huirjcuta: Raunax and back through Huacuri Quitenie. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Every year, groups of Wixárika people, known in Spanish as Huichols, leave their homes in the Sierra Madre Occidental and walk, ride or drive hundreds of kilometres east to Wirikuta, the sacred desert in San Luis Potosí where, in their tradition, the sun was born. Along the way they stop at a series of sacred places, springs, hills and water holes, where they leave offerings and perform ceremonies. Natsitacua is one of these places, out on the high plains near the border of Zacatecas and San Luis Potosí, and the names of the neighbouring stops on the route, such as Nihuetaritsié, are in the Wixárika language.
Read the complete Natsitacua write-up.
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Natsitacua is where the day begins. Next is Huacuri Quitenie.
Somewhere in the creosote flats north of Charcas, in San Luis Potosí, the land that the Wixárika people call Wirikuta begins to feel different, even to a visitor who knows nothing of its meaning. The horizon widens, the mountains of the Sierra de Catorce rise to the east, and on a clear morning the whole desert seems to hum. Huacuri Quitenie is one of the sacred places along the Wixárika pilgrimage route to Wirikuta, where pilgrims stop to pray and leave offerings on their way to Leunar, the hill they call Cerro Quemado, where the sun was born.
Read the complete Huacuri Quitenie write-up.
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Huacuri Quitenie comes up 67 km in. Next is Huirjcuta: Raunax.
For the Wixarika people, also known as the Huichol, the high desert of San Luis Potosí is the place where the sun was born, and every year pilgrims walk or travel hundreds of kilometres from their mountain villages in Jalisco and Nayarit to Wirikuta, a sacred landscape around the old mining town of Real de Catorce.
Read the complete Huirjcuta: Raunax write-up.
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134 km in you reach Huirjcuta: Raunax. Next is back through Huacuri Quitenie.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Huacuri Quitenie write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Huacuri Quitenie, late in the day. Next is Natsitacua.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Natsitacua write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Natsitacua. That is the ride.
Natsitacua → Huacuri Quitenie is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Huacuri Quitenie → Huirjcuta: Raunax is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Huirjcuta: Raunax → back through Huacuri Quitenie is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Huacuri Quitenie → Natsitacua is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.