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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From San Miguel de Allende it runs 105 km to San Miguel de Allende; allow about 2 h 12 of riding. The stops in between: Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist, Former hacienda of Chichimequillas and back through Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
San Miguel de Allende sits at about 1,900 metres in the highlands of Guanajuato, and its centre looks like a film set because it has hardly changed in two centuries. Cobbled streets climb between rose-pink and ochre walls, doors open onto courtyards full of bougainvillea, and over everything rise the pink Gothic spires of the Parroquia, the parish church, which was given its fairy-tale appearance in the late nineteenth century by a self-taught local builder, Zeferino Gutiérrez, who is said to have based the design on postcards of European cathedrals.
Read the complete Protective town of San Miguel write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Protective town of San Miguel is where the day begins. Next is Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist.
North of the city of Querétaro, the land rises into dry hills dotted with cactus, mesquite and the remains of old haciendas. These estates were the economic engines of colonial Mexico, producing grain, livestock and pulque for the cities and mines of the north. The chapel of the former Hacienda of Buenavista stands in this landscape near the village of the same name, close to Santa Rosa Jáuregui, and it is part of the UNESCO-listed Camino Real de Tierra Adentro.
Read the complete Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist write-up.
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Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Former hacienda of Chichimequillas.
On the high, dry plain northeast of Querétaro, the village of Chichimequillas grew up around an old hacienda, one of the many great estates that lined the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Inland Road that connected Mexico City with Santa Fe, in what is now New Mexico, for nearly three centuries. Silver, mercury, cloth, livestock, missionaries and soldiers travelled this route, and haciendas like this one supplied food, water and rest. The route was listed by UNESCO in 2010 as a series of sites, and the hacienda is one of them; its old buildings, chapel and walls hint at the wealth and power once concentrated here.
Read the complete Former hacienda of Chichimequillas write-up.
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about 54 km into the recorded legs you reach Former hacienda of Chichimequillas. Next is back through Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist, late in the day. Next is Protective town of San Miguel.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Protective town of San Miguel write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Protective town of San Miguel. That is the ride.
Protective town of San Miguel → Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist → Former hacienda of Chichimequillas is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Former hacienda of Chichimequillas → back through Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist → Protective town of San Miguel is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.