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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
A 327 km round trip from Azogues - roughly 7 h 04 in the saddle. It goes by way of Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d, Segment Mamamag - Mamamag, Segment San Antonio - San Antonio and back through Segment Mamamag - Mamamag. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 3,750 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 31 km this is Avenue of the Volcanoes, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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 Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d.
High in the southern Ecuadorian Andes, at about 2,500 metres, Cuenca was founded by the Spanish in 1557 on a grid plan, on the site of an Inca city called Tomebamba, which was itself built over an earlier Cañari settlement. The colonial centre, with its cobbled streets, whitewashed houses with wooden balconies, churches and plazas, was inscribed by UNESCO in 1999, and the blue-tiled domes of the new cathedral are the city's landmark. The Tomebamba river runs through the city, lined with parks and old houses perched on the bank.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d comes up about 31 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Mamamag - Mamamag.
West of Cuenca the Andes lift quickly, and the Mamamag label sits on the edge of that rise, about twenty-four kilometres from the city, where the cultivated valleys give way to cold, open páramo. The nearest real town is Cuenca itself, a university city of cobbled colonial streets at roughly two and a half thousand metres, and anything you need, from fuel to a decent soup, you should sort out there before you climb.
Read the complete Segment Mamamag - Mamamag write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 62 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Mamamag - Mamamag. Next is Segment San Antonio - San Antonio.
What I can say is that the point lies on the steep western slope of the Andes, in the country between the highlands near Cuenca and the coastal plain, with Naranjal the nearest real town, thirty-odd kilometres off on the lowlands.
Read the complete Segment San Antonio - San Antonio write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment San Antonio - San Antonio, about halfway. Next is back through Segment Mamamag - Mamamag.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Mamamag - Mamamag write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Mamamag - Mamamag sits at 124 km, about halfway. Next is back through Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d comes up about 298 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Segment Cerro de Cojitambo closes the day.
Segment Cerro de Cojitambo → Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d → Segment Mamamag - Mamamag is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Mamamag - Mamamag → Segment San Antonio - San Antonio is 97 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment San Antonio - San Antonio → back through Segment Mamamag - Mamamag is 101 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Mamamag - Mamamag → back through Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d → Segment Cerro de Cojitambo is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.