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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From Piraquara it runs 1099 km to Piraquara; allow about 18 h 57 of riding. On the way it passes Guaraguacu Ecological Station, Guaraquecaba Ecological Station, Superagui National Park and Ilha do Cardoso State Park. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 61 km this is Estrada da Graciosa, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
There are two ways down from Curitiba to the sea, and both are worth knowing. The modern highway, the BR-277, hurtles down the Serra do Mar in a series of viaducts and tunnels, and the old road, the Estrada da Graciosa, built in the nineteenth century, winds through the same forest on cobblestones, with bends so tight and views so green that bikers talk about it for years. The Serra do Mar is a steep coastal range, covered in Atlantic Forest, with clouds that cling to the peaks, and Pico do Marumbi, at about fifteen hundred metres, is the rocky summit that dominates the skyline.
Read the complete Pico do Marumbi State Park write-up.
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Pico do Marumbi State Park is where the day begins. Next is Guaraguacu Ecological Station.
On the coast of Paraná, between the port city of Paranaguá and the beaches of Pontal do Paraná, the Guaraguaçu Ecological Station protects a stretch of lowland forest, mangrove and sandy restinga along the Guaraguaçu river. It belongs to the network of Atlantic Forest reserves that UNESCO lists for the south and southeast of Brazil, here around the Paranaguá bay, one of the best preserved estuaries on the Brazilian coast. Access to the station itself is restricted, as ecological stations are mainly for research, but the surrounding landscape gives a strong sense of what it protects.
Read the complete Guaraguacu Ecological Station write-up.
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Guaraguaçu Ecological Station comes up about 61 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.
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about 312 km into the recorded legs you reach Guaraquecaba Ecological Station. Next is Superagui National Park.
You cannot ride into Superagui, and that is exactly why it is still here. The national park covers islands, mangroves, beaches and lowland Atlantic Forest on the northern coast of Paraná state in southern Brazil, and it belongs to the UNESCO-listed Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves. Access is by boat, mostly from Paranaguá or from the small town of Guaraqueçaba, and the reward is a stretch of coastline with no roads, few people and a very rare monkey: the black-faced lion tamarin, which scientists only described in 1990 and which lives in a tiny area of these forests.
Read the complete Superagui National Park write-up.
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Superagui National Park, about halfway. 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.
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Ilha do Cardoso State Park sits at 550 km, about halfway. Next is back through Superagui National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Superagui National Park write-up.
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back through Superagui National Park comes up about 684 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Guaraquecaba Ecological Station.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Guaraquecaba Ecological Station write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 787 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Guaraquecaba Ecological Station. Next is back through Guaraguacu Ecological Station.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Guaraguacu Ecological Station write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Guaraguacu Ecological Station, late in the day. Next is Pico do Marumbi State Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pico do Marumbi State Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 1099 km.
Pico do Marumbi State Park → Guaraguacu Ecological Station is 164 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Guaraguaçu Ecological Station → Guaraquecaba Ecological Station is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Guaraquecaba Ecological Station → Superagui National Park is 102 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Superagui National Park → Ilha do Cardoso State Park is 135 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ilha do Cardoso State Park → back through Superagui National Park is 135 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Superagui National Park → back through Guaraquecaba Ecological Station is 102 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Guaraquecaba Ecological Station → back through Guaraguacu Ecological Station is 148 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Guaraguacu Ecological Station → Pico do Marumbi State Park is 164 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.