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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137 km from Pomata to Pomata, about 2 h 40 of riding. It goes by way of Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje, Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua and back through Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata is a stretch of the Qhapaq Ñan, the great Inca road network, that survives on the high plateau beside Lake Titicaca. The Inca built roads like these across the Andes, stone-paved, with drainage, retaining walls and way stations, to link their empire from Colombia to Chile. On the Peruvian shore near Pomata the road passes through country that was Aymara long before the Incas arrived, and the same communities farm potatoes, quinoa and barley today. The Qhapaq Ñan has been listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, with sections in six countries.
Read the complete Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata write-up.
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Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata is where the day begins. Next is Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje.
Juli sits on the south-western shore of Lake Titicaca at close to 3,900 metres, and the air is so thin and clear that the far side of the lake, in Bolivia, seems close enough to touch. The town is nicknamed the Rome of the Americas for its cluster of colonial churches, built by Dominican and Jesuit missionaries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with carved stone façades and dim interiors full of paintings. Just outside town, the segment of Inca road between Juli and Cruz Pata Ccaje is part of the Qhapaq Ñan, the Andean road system inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2014. This route, the Urcosuyu branch, ran along the lake towards what is now Bolivia.
Read the complete Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje write-up.
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Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje comes up about 17 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua.
At close to four thousand metres, on the Peruvian shore of Lake Titicaca, the air is thin enough that walking briskly feels like work and the light is so sharp it seems to sharpen the edges of everything. This stretch belongs to the Qhapaq Ñan, the great Andean road network that the Inca built and extended across their empire, and here it runs through Aymara farming country between the towns of Yunguyo and Desaguadero, both about twenty kilometres away, with the Bolivian border a short distance east.
Read the complete Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua write-up.
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about 68 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua. Next is back through Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje write-up.
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back through Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje, late in the day. Next is Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata. That is the ride.
Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata → Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje → Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua → back through Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje → Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.