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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
117 km from Concá to Concá, about 2 h 25 of riding. The stops in between: Santiago de Jalpan, Santa María del Agua de Landa and back through Santiago de Jalpan. 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 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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about 58 km into the recorded legs you reach Santa María del Agua de Landa. 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 → Santa María del Agua de Landa is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Santa María del Agua de Landa → back through Santiago de Jalpan is 22 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.