CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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563 km from Azogues to Azogues, about 11 h 26 of riding. On the way it passes Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca, Sangay National Park and back through Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 3,750 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
Segment Cerro de Cojitambo is where the day begins. Next is Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca.
Achupallas is a high village in Chimborazo province, about sixteen kilometres from Alausí, and the walking trail named after it, which runs south towards Ingapirca, is one of Ecuador's best-known treks. For motorcyclists the point is the landscape and the road beside it: bare páramo at over three thousand metres, with the volcanic cone of Sangay on a clear day, and little else but sheep, lupins and the odd shepherd's hut.
Read the complete Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca write-up.
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Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca comes up 85 km in. Next is Sangay National Park.
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.
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169 km in you reach Sangay National Park. Next is back through Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca, late in the day. Next is Segment Cerro de Cojitambo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Cerro de Cojitambo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment Cerro de Cojitambo. That is the ride.
Segment Cerro de Cojitambo → Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca → Sangay National Park is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Sangay National Park → back through Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca → Segment Cerro de Cojitambo is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.