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 199 km round trip from Jalpan - roughly 5 h 08 in the saddle. The stops in between: Nuestra Señora de la Luz de Tancoyol, San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco 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. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The ride follows Nuestra Señora de la Luz de Tancoyol → San Francisco del Valle de Tila for 42 km.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Santiago de Jalpan is where the day begins. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Nuestra Señora de la Luz de Tancoyol comes up about 57 km into the recorded legs. Next is San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco.
In the middle of the eighteenth century, a group of Franciscan friars led by Junipero Serra, later famous for his missions in California, set about building five churches in the Sierra Gorda of Queretaro, one of the roughest, most remote parts of central Mexico. The mission of San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco is one of the five, along with Jalpan, Landa, Concá and Tancoyol, and together they were inscribed as World Heritage in 2003 as the Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda. The church at Tilaco stands in a small village, and its facade is covered with stucco decoration in a style that mixes European baroque with local imagery, with saints, flowers, and symbols that might have been designed by the indigenous workers who built it.
Read the complete San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 99 km into the recorded legs you reach San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Nuestra Señora de la Luz de Tancoyol, 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 → 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 → San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco → back through Nuestra Señora de la Luz de Tancoyol is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Nuestra Señora de la Luz de Tancoyol → Santiago de Jalpan is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.