Why this ride
The stops in between: Ilha do Cardoso State Park, Ilha Comprida Wild Life Zone, Pariquera - Abaixo State Park and Carlos Botelho State Park. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Salto Morato Private Reserve and Carlos Botelho State Park
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 1317 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 22 h 42
- 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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Salto Morato Private Reserve
On the Paraná coast of Brazil the Atlantic Forest comes down almost to the sea, and Salto Morato is a private reserve that protects a good piece of it. A few thousand hectares of dense, wet forest, ferns, palms, orchids and giant trees covered in moss, with a trail that leads to a waterfall of about a hundred metres plunging down a green cliff. The Atlantic Forest was once enormous, running along most of the Brazilian coast, but today only a small fraction survives, and this area, with its neighbours in the Serra do Mar, is one of the best-preserved parts, recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage cluster.
Read the complete Salto Morato Private Reserve write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Salto Morato Private Reserve is where the day begins. Next is Ilha do Cardoso State Park.
2. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Ilha do Cardoso State Park comes up about 153 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ilha Comprida Wild Life Zone.
3. Ilha Comprida Wild Life Zone
Ilha Comprida, the long island, is exactly what its name promises: a narrow barrier island of sand, dunes and restinga scrub that runs for roughly seventy kilometres along the southern coast of São Paulo state, separating the Atlantic from the calm inland waters of the Mar Pequeno. Behind it lies the Lagamar, one of the largest estuarine complexes in Brazil, a maze of channels, mangroves and islands stretching south toward Cananéia and Paranaguá. This entire region, including the Ilha Comprida protected areas, forms part of the Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves, listed by UNESCO in 1999 for preserving one of the richest and most threatened ecosystems on Earth.
Read the complete Ilha Comprida Wild Life Zone write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 302 km into the recorded legs you reach Ilha Comprida Wild Life Zone. Next is Pariquera - Abaixo State Park.
4. Pariquera - Abaixo State Park
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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Pariquera - Abaixo State Park, about halfway. Next is Carlos Botelho State Park.
5. Carlos Botelho State Park
Carlos Botelho State Park protects a big piece of the Atlantic Forest on the slopes of the Serra de Paranapiacaba, in the south of São Paulo state, and it is one of the best remaining pieces of a forest that once covered the whole coast of Brazil. Less than a tenth of the original Atlantic Forest survives, and what is left is crowded with life: tapirs, ocelots, the occasional jaguar, hundreds of bird species and the muriqui, the woolly spider monkey, the largest primate in the Americas. The park is among the few places where this endangered monkey still lives.
Read the complete Carlos Botelho State Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Carlos Botelho State Park sits at 659 km, about halfway. Next is back through Pariquera - Abaixo State Park.
6. back through Pariquera - Abaixo State Park
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pariquera - Abaixo State Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Pariquera - Abaixo State Park comes up about 903 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Ilha Comprida Wild Life Zone.
7. back through Ilha Comprida Wild Life Zone
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ilha Comprida Wild Life Zone write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 1015 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Ilha Comprida Wild Life Zone. Next is back through Ilha do Cardoso State Park.
8. back through Ilha do Cardoso State Park
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ilha do Cardoso State Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Ilha do Cardoso State Park, late in the day. Next is Salto Morato Private Reserve.
9. Salto Morato Private Reserve
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Salto Morato Private Reserve write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
The route ends here after 1317 km.
Leg by leg
Salto Morato Private Reserve to Ilha do Cardoso State Park
Salto Morato Private Reserve → Ilha do Cardoso State Park is 153 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ilha do Cardoso State Park to Ilha Comprida Wild Life Zone
Ilha do Cardoso State Park → Ilha Comprida Wild Life Zone is 150 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ilha Comprida Wild Life Zone to Pariquera - Abaixo State Park
Ilha Comprida Wild Life Zone → Pariquera - Abaixo State Park is 111 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pariquera - Abaixo State Park to Carlos Botelho State Park
Pariquera - Abaixo State Park → Carlos Botelho State Park is 245 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Carlos Botelho State Park to back through Pariquera - Abaixo State Park
Carlos Botelho State Park → back through Pariquera - Abaixo State Park is 245 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Pariquera - Abaixo State Park to back through Ilha Comprida Wild Life Zone
back through Pariquera - Abaixo State Park → back through Ilha Comprida Wild Life Zone is 111 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ilha Comprida Wild Life Zone to back through Ilha do Cardoso State Park
back through Ilha Comprida Wild Life Zone → back through Ilha do Cardoso State Park is 150 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ilha do Cardoso State Park to Salto Morato Private Reserve
back through Ilha do Cardoso State Park → Salto Morato Private Reserve is 153 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.