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 259 km round trip from Concá - roughly 6 h 18 in the saddle. It goes by way of Santiago de Jalpan, Nuestra Señora de la Luz de Tancoyol, Santa María del Agua de Landa and back through Nuestra Señora de la Luz de Tancoyol. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,600 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
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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 Nuestra Señora de la Luz de Tancoyol.
Tancoyol is one of the last of the Sierra Gorda missions to be built, and it is perhaps the one that feels most remote. The church of Nuestra Señora de la Luz stands in a small village in the valley of the Santa María river, in the north of Querétaro, with a tall, intricate facade covered with plaster figures, flowers and symbols, a combination of European baroque and the imagination of the Pame people who helped to build it. UNESCO listed the five Sierra Gorda missions together in 2003, and Tancoyol is the quietest of them.
Read the complete Nuestra Señora de la Luz de Tancoyol write-up.
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about 93 km into the recorded legs you reach Nuestra Señora de la Luz de Tancoyol. Next is Santa María del Agua de Landa.
High in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro, Franciscan missionaries led by Junípero Serra in the mid eighteenth century built five mission churches, and their facades are an explosion of carved and painted plaster: angels, saints, flowers, fruit, mermaids and symbols that blend Catholic imagery with the local indigenous world. The mission of Santa María del Agua de Landa, in the village of Landa de Matamoros, has one of the most elaborate facades, glowing in pink and ochre. The five missions were listed together as a World Heritage Site in 2003. Serra went on to found the missions of California.
Read the complete Santa María del Agua de Landa write-up.
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Santa María del Agua de Landa, about halfway. Next is back through Nuestra Señora de la Luz de Tancoyol.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Nuestra Señora de la Luz de Tancoyol write-up.
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back through Nuestra Señora de la Luz de Tancoyol sits at 143 km, about halfway. 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 comes up about 223 km into the recorded legs. 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.
San Miguel Concá closes the day.
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 → Nuestra Señora de la Luz de Tancoyol is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nuestra Señora de la Luz de Tancoyol → Santa María del Agua de Landa is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Santa María del Agua de Landa → back through Nuestra Señora de la Luz de Tancoyol is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Nuestra Señora de la Luz de Tancoyol → back through Santiago de Jalpan is 58 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.