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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A 170 km round trip from Concá - roughly 3 h 31 in the saddle. The stops in between: Santiago de Jalpan, San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco and back through Santiago de Jalpan. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,600 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
This part of the ride is 49 km of Santiago de Jalpan → San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco.
The five Franciscan missions of the Sierra Gorda are a very odd thing to find in the Mexican mountains: grand baroque churches, painted in pinks and yellows and covered in stone carvings, set in villages that are otherwise made of low houses and cornfields. San Miguel Conca is one of them. Father Junipero Serra, who would later found the missions of California, led the work here in the 1750s with the help of the local Pame people, and the facade of the church shows the mix of cultures that built it, with saints and angels carved beside local plants, mermaids and faces that look more indigenous than European. All five missions were listed as a World Heritage site in 2003.
Read the complete San Miguel Concá write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
San Miguel Concá is where the day begins. Next is Santiago de Jalpan.
Fray Junípero Serra, later famous for his missions in California, started his career in the Sierra Gorda, a rugged, forested range in northern Querétaro, and the church at Jalpan is where it began. Built in the mid-eighteenth century by Franciscan friars and the local Pame people, it is the central one of five missions in the region, and the facade is covered with colourful stucco figures of saints, flowers and angels, a mix of baroque tradition and indigenous imagination. UNESCO listed the five missions in 2003.
Read the complete Santiago de Jalpan write-up.
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Santiago de Jalpan comes up about 36 km into the recorded legs. Next is San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco.
In the middle of the eighteenth century, a group of Franciscan friars led by Junipero Serra, later famous for his missions in California, set about building five churches in the Sierra Gorda of Queretaro, one of the roughest, most remote parts of central Mexico. The mission of San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco is one of the five, along with Jalpan, Landa, Concá and Tancoyol, and together they were inscribed as World Heritage in 2003 as the Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda. The church at Tilaco stands in a small village, and its facade is covered with stucco decoration in a style that mixes European baroque with local imagery, with saints, flowers, and symbols that might have been designed by the indigenous workers who built it.
Read the complete San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 85 km into the recorded legs you reach San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco. Next is back through Santiago de Jalpan.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Santiago de Jalpan write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Santiago de Jalpan, late in the day. Next is San Miguel Concá.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete San Miguel Concá write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at San Miguel Concá. That is the ride.
San Miguel Concá → Santiago de Jalpan is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Santiago de Jalpan → San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco → back through Santiago de Jalpan is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Santiago de Jalpan → San Miguel Concá is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.