CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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566 km from Azogues to Azogues, about 11 h 27 of riding. It goes by way of Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez, 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. The line favours views over speed.
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.
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Segment Cerro de Cojitambo is where the day begins. Next is Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez.
High in the southern Andes of Ecuador, in the province of Cañar, a stretch of Inca road runs between the small towns of El Tambo and Honorato Vásquez, part of the Qhapaq Ñan World Heritage Site. The name El Tambo itself comes from the Inca word for a waystation, where travellers could rest and find supplies. This route was part of the great road that ran north from Cusco to Quito, and in this area it passed close to Ingapirca, the largest Inca site in Ecuador.
Read the complete Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez write-up.
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Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez comes up 59 km in. 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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117 km in you reach Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca. 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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Sangay National Park, about halfway. Next is back through Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca.
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Read the complete Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca write-up.
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back through Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca sits at 235 km, about halfway. Next is back through Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez write-up.
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back through Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez comes up 293 km in. Next is Segment Cerro de Cojitambo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Cerro de Cojitambo write-up.
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Segment Cerro de Cojitambo closes the day.
Segment Cerro de Cojitambo → Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez → Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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 → back through Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez → Segment Cerro de Cojitambo is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.