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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From Jalpan it runs 484 km to Jalpan; allow about 8 h 35 of riding. On the way it passes Former hacienda of Chichimequillas, Protective town of San Miguel and Sanctuar and back through Former hacienda of Chichimequillas. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Former hacienda of Chichimequillas.
On the high, dry plain northeast of Querétaro, the village of Chichimequillas grew up around an old hacienda, one of the many great estates that lined the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Inland Road that connected Mexico City with Santa Fe, in what is now New Mexico, for nearly three centuries. Silver, mercury, cloth, livestock, missionaries and soldiers travelled this route, and haciendas like this one supplied food, water and rest. The route was listed by UNESCO in 2010 as a series of sites, and the hacienda is one of them; its old buildings, chapel and walls hint at the wealth and power once concentrated here.
Read the complete Former hacienda of Chichimequillas write-up.
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Former hacienda of Chichimequillas comes up about 191 km into the recorded legs. Next is Protective town of San Miguel and Sanctuar.
San Miguel de Allende is a hill town in the highlands of Guanajuato, a little over two thousand metres above the sea, with cobbled streets climbing between ochre and rose-coloured walls, and in the middle of it the Gothic spires of the parish church rise improbably above the rooftops. The point on your map is in the centre of the town, and the sanctuary of Atotonilco, about fourteen kilometres away on the road to Dolores Hidalgo, was inscribed together with the town by UNESCO in 2008.
Read the complete Protective town of San Miguel and Sanctuar write-up.
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about 241 km into the recorded legs you reach Protective town of San Miguel and Sanctuar. Next is back through Former hacienda of Chichimequillas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Former hacienda of Chichimequillas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Former hacienda of Chichimequillas, late in the day. Next is 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 at Santiago de Jalpan. That is the ride.
Santiago de Jalpan → Former hacienda of Chichimequillas is 191 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Former hacienda of Chichimequillas → Protective town of San Miguel and Sanctuar is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Protective town of San Miguel and Sanctuar → back through Former hacienda of Chichimequillas is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Former hacienda of Chichimequillas → Santiago de Jalpan is 192 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.