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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297 km from Rancho Viejo to Rancho Viejo, about 4 h 57 of riding. On the way it passes Bridge La Quemada, Historic ensemble of the Town of Ojuelos and back through Bridge La Quemada. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
From the outside, the Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco is plain: thick whitewashed walls, a modest bell tower, a dusty plaza in a small village on the dry plateau of Guanajuato. Step inside and every surface erupts in colour. The church was founded in the eighteenth century by the priest Luis Felipe Neri de Alfaro as a place of penitence and spiritual retreat, and its walls and ceilings were covered over decades with murals by the painter Miguel Antonio Martínez de Pocasangre, full of saints, angels, Biblical scenes and verses. People call it the Sistine Chapel of Mexico, and the comparison is less exaggerated than it sounds. It is listed by UNESCO together with the nearby town of San Miguel de Allende.
Read the complete Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco write-up.
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Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco is where the day begins. Next is Bridge La Quemada.
The silver of Guanajuato came with a price, and the price was a war. In the middle of the sixteenth century, as the Spanish pushed north and the roads began to carry wagons of ore, the Chichimeca peoples of this high plateau resisted, and for several decades attacks on convoys made the journey dangerous. The Spanish answered with forts, called presidios, along the road, and with settlements of Indian allies, and the old road, the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, grew up as a fortified corridor.
Read the complete Bridge La Quemada write-up.
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Bridge La Quemada comes up about 60 km into the recorded legs. Next is Historic ensemble of the Town of Ojuelos.
Ojuelos de Jalisco lies on the high, dry plateau where Jalisco meets Aguascalientes, Zacatecas and Guanajuato, at over two thousand metres, a land of grassland, nopal cactus, mesquite and wide horizons. The town owes its existence to the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the royal road that carried silver north from the mines of Zacatecas and supplies from Mexico City, eventually reaching all the way to Santa Fe in what is now New Mexico. UNESCO listed a series of sites along the road in 2010, including the historic ensemble of Ojuelos.
Read the complete Historic ensemble of the Town of Ojuelos write-up.
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about 149 km into the recorded legs you reach Historic ensemble of the Town of Ojuelos. Next is back through Bridge La Quemada.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bridge La Quemada write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Bridge La Quemada, late in the day. Next is Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco. That is the ride.
Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco → Bridge La Quemada is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bridge La Quemada → Historic ensemble of the Town of Ojuelos is 89 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Historic ensemble of the Town of Ojuelos → back through Bridge La Quemada is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Bridge La Quemada → Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.