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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195 km from Desaguadero to Desaguadero, about 3 h 57 of riding. The stops in between: Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua, Segment Pomata-Chaca Chaca, Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje and Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Bolivia into Peru - carry ID and check the toll rules.
At around 3,800 metres above sea level the air on the Altiplano is thin enough to make lacing your boots feel like exercise, and Desaguadero is a place where you should take everything at half speed. The town sits on the border between Peru and Bolivia at the southern end of Lake Titicaca, where the Desaguadero river drains the lake toward the south. The segment of old road near Titijoni is part of the Qhapaq Ñan, the Inca road network listed by UNESCO in 2014, which ran along the shores of Titicaca on its way between Cusco and the southern provinces.
Read the complete Segment Desaguadero Titijoni write-up.
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Segment Desaguadero Titijoni is where the day begins. 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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Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Pomata-Chaca Chaca.
On the southern shore of Lake Titicaca, between Juli and the Bolivian border, the Inca road ran along the edge of the lake at nearly four thousand metres, linking Cusco with the lands of Collasuyu, the southern quarter of the empire. The Pomata section of the Qhapaq Ñan, part of the World Heritage listing of the Inca road system, follows the shore through Aymara villages, terraced hills and fields of potatoes, quinoa and broad beans, with the immense blue lake always beside you. The light at this altitude is intense, the air thin and dry, and the lake changes colour with every passing cloud.
Read the complete Segment Pomata-Chaca Chaca write-up.
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about 57 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Pomata-Chaca Chaca. 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, about halfway. Next is Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata.
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 sits at 97 km, about halfway. Next is back through Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje.
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Read the complete Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje write-up.
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back through Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje comes up about 114 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Segment Pomata-Chaca Chaca.
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Read the complete Segment Pomata-Chaca Chaca write-up.
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about 138 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Segment Pomata-Chaca Chaca. Next is back through Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua.
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Read the complete Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua write-up.
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back through Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua, late in the day. Next is Segment Desaguadero Titijoni.
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Read the complete Segment Desaguadero Titijoni write-up.
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The route ends here after 195 km.
Segment Desaguadero Titijoni → Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua → Segment Pomata-Chaca Chaca is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Pomata-Chaca Chaca → Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje → Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata → back through Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje → back through Segment Pomata-Chaca Chaca is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Pomata-Chaca Chaca → back through Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua → Segment Desaguadero Titijoni is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.