Why this ride
A 183 km round trip from Guantánamo - roughly 4 h 41 in the saddle. The stops in between: El Salvador, Yateras and back through El Salvador. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Niceto Pérez and Yateras
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 183 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 41
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Niceto Pérez
Niceto Pérez is a rural municipality in the hills just west of the city of Guantánamo, in the far east of Cuba, a region of sugar cane, small farms and mountains rising towards the Sierra Maestra and the coffee country of the Gran Piedra. It is not a place that features in many guidebooks, and that is part of its interest. The surrounding hills hold the remains of the coffee plantations established in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by French planters fleeing the revolution in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, and the archaeological landscape of those first coffee plantations in the south east of Cuba is listed by UNESCO.
Read the complete Niceto Pérez write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Niceto Pérez is where the day begins. Next is El Salvador.
2. El Salvador
In the mountains north of Guantánamo, at the eastern end of Cuba, the Sierra del Purial and the hills around the town of El Salvador rise steeply from the dry coastal plain into a greener, cooler world of forest and coffee. At the end of the eighteenth century, French planters fleeing the slave revolution in Saint-Domingue, today's Haiti, settled in these mountains and built coffee plantations, with stone drying terraces, mills, aqueducts and grand houses, worked by enslaved Africans. The ruins of more than a hundred and seventy of these plantations survive in the Sierra Maestra and around Guantánamo, and they were listed by UNESCO in 2000 as the Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba.
Read the complete El Salvador write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
El Salvador comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Yateras.
3. Yateras
Yateras is coffee country in the hills of Guantánamo province, at the far eastern end of Cuba, and getting here feels like leaving the island most visitors know. The municipality climbs from the dry lowlands around Guantánamo city into green, steep mountains, part of the great Nipe-Sagua-Baracoa range that runs along the north-east of the island.
Read the complete Yateras write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 92 km into the recorded legs you reach Yateras. Next is back through El Salvador.
4. back through El Salvador
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete El Salvador write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through El Salvador, late in the day. Next is Niceto Pérez.
5. Niceto Pérez
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Niceto Pérez write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Niceto Pérez. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Niceto Pérez to El Salvador
Niceto Pérez → El Salvador is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
El Salvador to Yateras
El Salvador → Yateras is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Yateras to back through El Salvador
Yateras → back through El Salvador is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through El Salvador to Niceto Pérez
back through El Salvador → Niceto Pérez is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.