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 Puebla de Don Fadrique it runs 181 km to Puebla de Don Fadrique; allow about 4 h 43 of riding. The stops in between: Cañada de la Cruz, Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I and back through Cañada de la Cruz. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Cold water is a rare luxury in southern Spain, and a stream called Río Frío promises exactly that. It is a land of pine forests, limestone crags, deep river gorges and tiny villages, and the painted rock shelters scattered through these hills are part of the UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula.
Read the complete Río frío write-up.
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Río frío is where the day begins. Next is Cañada de la Cruz.
The Cañada de la Cruz is a high valley or drovers' pasture in the Segura mountains; cañada is the word for the traditional livestock routes and grazing grounds used by shepherds moving their flocks between summer and winter pastures, and this part of Spain has a long history of transhumance.
Read the complete Cañada de la Cruz write-up.
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Cañada de la Cruz comes up about 24 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I.
Nerpio is about as far from anywhere as you can get in mainland Spain. The village sits in the southwestern corner of Albacete province, where Castilla-La Mancha meets Andalusia and Murcia, in the mountains of the Sierra de Segura, at the end of long, winding roads. It is known for its walnut trees, which line the valleys and give the village its pride, and for its rock art: the hills around are full of shelters with prehistoric paintings, and Nerpio is one of the most important centres for Levantine art in Spain. The Abrigo de la Fuente de Montañoz is one of these shelters, near a spring in the hills above the Taibilla river.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I write-up.
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about 86 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I. Next is back through Cañada de la Cruz.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cañada de la Cruz write-up.
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back through Cañada de la Cruz, late in the day. Next is Río frío.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Río frío write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Río frío. That is the ride.
Río frío → Cañada de la Cruz is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cañada de la Cruz → Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I → back through Cañada de la Cruz is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cañada de la Cruz → Río frío is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.