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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The stops in between: Cuhixu Uheni, Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in, Huahuatsari and Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
High desert stretches away in every direction here, dotted with yucca, nopal cactus and mesquite, under a sky that seems twice as big as anywhere else. For centuries the Wixárika have made pilgrimages from their homeland in the Sierra Madre Occidental across these plains to Wirikuta, the sacred desert near Real de Catorce, stopping at springs, hills and other holy places along the way. This is one of those places, a spot that matters in their ritual geography even if, to an outsider, it looks like empty desert.
Read the complete Nihuetaritsié write-up.
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Nihuetaritsié is where the day begins. Next is Cuhixu Uheni.
Every year, groups of Wixárika pilgrims, the people known to outsiders as the Huichol, walk hundreds of kilometres from their homeland in the mountains of Jalisco and Nayarit to Wirikuta, a sacred desert in San Luis Potosí. The route crosses a chain of sacred places, springs, hills and rocks, where offerings are left and ceremonies performed, and Cuhixu Uheni, near the small town of Villa de Ramos, is one of them. The pilgrimage route as a whole has been put forward for World Heritage status as a living cultural landscape.
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Cuhixu Uheni comes up about 41 km into the recorded legs. Next is Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in.
Villa González Ortega is a small town on the high plateau of Zacatecas, in north central Mexico, and its church of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores is one of the sites recognised as part of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Inland Road. This was the great trade route that linked Mexico City with the silver mines of the north and eventually with Santa Fe in New Mexico, a journey of more than two thousand kilometres across deserts, mountains and plains. For almost three centuries, wagons, mule trains, soldiers, priests and settlers travelled this road, and the towns, churches, haciendas and bridges along it tell the story of the Spanish colonisation of the north. UNESCO listed the route in 2010.
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about 90 km into the recorded legs you reach Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in. Next is Huahuatsari.
Every year, Wixárika pilgrims, the people often called Huichol, walk or travel hundreds of kilometres from their homeland in the Sierra Madre Occidental to Wirikuta, a sacred desert in San Luis Potosí, where they gather peyote and make offerings at sacred places along the way. Huahuatsari is one of the sacred sites on this route, in the high desert near Villa de Ramos. The pilgrimage route has been placed on Mexico's tentative list for World Heritage, and the sites along it are places of prayer, not tourist attractions.
Read the complete Huahuatsari write-up.
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Huahuatsari, about halfway. Next is Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of.
The high plateau of central Mexico, known as the Mesa Central, is a landscape of dry grass, mesquite, nopal cactus and low volcanic hills, and the village of Noria de Angeles, in the state of Zacatecas, sits in the middle of it, about eight kilometres from Villa Gonzalez Ortega.
Read the complete Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of write-up.
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Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of sits at 182 km, about halfway. Next is back through Huahuatsari.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Huahuatsari write-up.
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back through Huahuatsari comes up about 236 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in write-up.
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about 283 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in. Next is back through Cuhixu Uheni.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cuhixu Uheni write-up.
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back through Cuhixu Uheni, late in the day. Next is Nihuetaritsié.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Nihuetaritsié write-up.
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The route ends here after 372 km.
Nihuetaritsié → Cuhixu Uheni is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cuhixu Uheni → Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in → Huahuatsari is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Huahuatsari → Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of → back through Huahuatsari is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Huahuatsari → back through Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in → back through Cuhixu Uheni is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cuhixu Uheni → Nihuetaritsié is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.