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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726 km from Pariquera Açu to Pariquera Açu, about 5 h of riding. It goes by way of Ilha do Cardoso State Park, Guaraquecaba Ecological Station and back through Ilha do Cardoso State Park. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Between the Ribeira de Iguape river and the coast of southern São Paulo state, the land is low, green and wet, covered in a patchwork of banana plantations, rice fields, mangroves and patches of dense Atlantic Forest. The Pariquera-Abaixo State Park protects one of these patches, part of the larger network of Atlantic Forest reserves of southeast Brazil listed by UNESCO in 1999, a region that holds some of the most extensive surviving stretches of this once vast forest.
Read the complete Pariquera - Abaixo State Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Pariquera - Abaixo State Park is where the day begins. Next is Ilha do Cardoso State Park.
The southern tip of São Paulo's coast frays into a maze of islands, channels and mangroves, and the largest of the islands, Ilha do Cardoso, rises from the sea as a forested mountain ridge. It has been a state park since the 1960s, protecting a remarkable range of habitats in a small space: mountain rainforest, restinga scrub on sandy soils, mangroves, dunes and long empty beaches facing the Atlantic. It is part of the Atlantic Forest Southeast reserves listed by UNESCO.
Read the complete Ilha do Cardoso State Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Ilha do Cardoso State Park comes up about 188 km into the recorded legs. Next is Guaraquecaba Ecological Station.
Guaraqueçaba is one of those places in Brazil where the road gives up before the forest does. It lies on the northern shore of the great bay of Paranaguá, on the coast of Paraná state, surrounded by mangroves, islands, tidal channels and the steep, forested slopes of the Serra do Mar. The ecological station protects a large area of mangroves and coastal forest, and it is part of the Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves, a World Heritage Site that preserves some of the best remaining stretches of the Mata Atlântica, a forest that once covered much of Brazil's coast and has now been reduced to a fraction of its former extent.
Read the complete Guaraquecaba Ecological Station write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 363 km into the recorded legs you reach Guaraquecaba Ecological Station. Next is back through Ilha do Cardoso State Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ilha do Cardoso State Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Ilha do Cardoso State Park, late in the day. Next is Pariquera - Abaixo State Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pariquera - Abaixo State Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Pariquera - Abaixo State Park. That is the ride.
Pariquera - Abaixo State Park → Ilha do Cardoso State Park is 188 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ilha do Cardoso State Park → Guaraquecaba Ecological Station is 175 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Guaraquecaba Ecological Station → back through Ilha do Cardoso State Park is 175 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Ilha do Cardoso State Park → Pariquera - Abaixo State Park is 188 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.