Why this ride
It goes by way of PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station, Veracruz Station and back through PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Pau Brazil National Park and Veracruz Station
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 185 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 39
- 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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Scenic road chapters
Pau Brazil National Park → PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station
34 km on Pau Brazil National Park → PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 34 km
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Pau Brazil National Park
Brazil is named after a tree. Pau-brasil, brazilwood, grew along the Atlantic coast when the Portuguese arrived in 1500, and its heartwood yields a deep red dye that was worth a fortune in Europe, so the early traders called the land after it. Within a few generations they had cut most of the coastal trees, and the species nearly vanished. Pau Brasil National Park, near Porto Seguro in southern Bahia, protects a patch of lowland Atlantic Forest where some of those trees still stand, with dense, humid woods, vines, palms and the bird calls of the tropics. The park is part of the Costa do Descobrimento Atlantic Forest Reserves, listed by UNESCO in 1999.
Read the complete Pau Brazil National Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Pau Brazil National Park is where the day begins. Next is PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station.
2. PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station
In April 1500, the Portuguese fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral, sailing for India, sighted land on this coast and anchored near what is now Porto Seguro, in southern Bahia, making the first recorded European landfall in Brazil. The country took its name from the pau-brasil, a tree whose red wood was valuable for making dye and was exported in huge quantities in the early colonial period, nearly wiping it out. The CEPLAC experimental station near Porto Seguro, an agricultural research facility, lies within the Atlantic Forest reserves of this coast, listed by UNESCO in 1999 together with other protected areas of the Costa do Descobrimento.
Read the complete PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Veracruz Station.
3. Veracruz Station
On 22 April 1500, a Portuguese fleet under Pedro Alvares Cabral anchored off this coast of Bahia, and the history of Brazil as a European colony began. The fleet was bound for India, and was blown far to the west, and the first mass in Brazil was held on shore a few days later. The area around Porto Seguro and Santa Cruz Cabralia is still called the Costa do Descobrimento, and the stretch of Atlantic Forest behind it is a UNESCO World Heritage listing, the Atlantic Forest Reserves of that same coast, one of the last pieces of lowland coastal forest in the north-east of the country. Veracruz Station is one of its protected areas.
Read the complete Veracruz Station write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 91 km into the recorded legs you reach Veracruz Station. Next is back through PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station.
4. back through PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station, late in the day. Next is Pau Brazil National Park.
5. Pau Brazil National Park
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pau Brazil National Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Pau Brazil National Park. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Pau Brazil National Park to PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station
Pau Brazil National Park → PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station to Veracruz Station
PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station → Veracruz Station is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Veracruz Station to back through PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station
Veracruz Station → back through PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station to Pau Brazil National Park
back through PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station → Pau Brazil National Park is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.