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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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On the way it passes Segment Palcañán Grande - Palcañán Chico, Segment Cerro de Cojitambo and back through Segment Palcañán Grande - Palcañán Chico. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 3,750 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Sangay is one of the most active volcanoes on Earth, a cone of a little over five thousand two hundred metres that has been erupting more or less continuously for centuries. It stands in the eastern Andes of Ecuador, at the centre of a national park that was listed as a World Heritage Site in 1983, and the park covers a remarkable range of habitats, from glaciers and páramo down through cloud forest to Amazonian rainforest. The altitude difference between the top of the mountain and the lowest part of the park is more than four thousand metres.
Read the complete Sangay National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Sangay National Park is where the day begins. Next is Segment Palcañán Grande - Palcañán Chico.
High in the Andes of Chimborazo province, south of Alausí, a narrow path of fitted stone winds across the páramo, the cold grassland that covers the Ecuadorian highlands above about 3,500 metres. It is part of the Qhapaq Ñan, the Inca road system, and this stretch belongs to the route that links the Inca site of Ingapirca with the highlands to the north. Before the Spanish arrived, the Inca built paved paths, stairways and waystations across this country, and parts of them are still in use, walked by herders and, in recent decades, by trekkers following the well-known route from Achupallas to Ingapirca.
Read the complete Segment Palcañán Grande - Palcañán Chico write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Palcañán Grande - Palcañán Chico comes up about 101 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Cerro de Cojitambo.
Cojitambo is a rocky hill that rises abruptly above the valley of Azogues, in the province of Cañar, in the southern Andes of Ecuador. Its summit and slopes hold the remains of a Cañari and Inca settlement, with walls, terraces and stairways, and the Inca road ran past it, a segment of the Qhapaq Ñan listed by UNESCO. The Cañari were the people of this region before the Inca conquest, and they resisted fiercely, later siding with the Spanish against their Inca overlords. Today the hill is also a popular spot for rock climbing, with routes on its cliffs.
Read the complete Segment Cerro de Cojitambo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 172 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Cerro de Cojitambo. Next is back through Segment Palcañán Grande - Palcañán Chico.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Palcañán Grande - Palcañán Chico write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Palcañán Grande - Palcañán Chico, late in the day. Next is Sangay National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sangay National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Sangay National Park. That is the ride.
Sangay National Park → Segment Palcañán Grande - Palcañán Chico is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Segment Palcañán Grande - Palcañán Chico → Segment Cerro de Cojitambo is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Segment Cerro de Cojitambo → back through Segment Palcañán Grande - Palcañán Chico is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Segment Palcañán Grande - Palcañán Chico → Sangay National Park is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.