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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481 km from Curgos to Curgos, about 12 h 34 of riding. It goes by way of Segment Pariachuco - Tauli, Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre and back through Segment Pariachuco - Tauli. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 3,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Huamachuco is a big market town in the highlands of La Libertad, at about 3,200 metres, and it has been an important place for much longer than the Incas. On the hills above the town, the ruins of Marcahuamachuco spread across a long ridge, with huge stone walls and galleries that were raised during the first millennium AD, in a culture that flourished at the same time as the Wari empire and ruled the northern highlands. A big part of the stonework still stands, including a long building called the Castillo, with three storeys of stone galleries. The Incas arrived much later, in the fifteenth century, and ran their road system through the area, and parts of the Qhapaq Ñan around Huamachuco are among those listed by UNESCO in 2014.
Read the complete Segment Escalerilla/ Casa Blanca - Cerro H write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Escalerilla/ Casa Blanca - Cerro H is where the day begins. Next is Segment Pariachuco - Tauli.
Some roads you can still feel. At this part of the northern Peruvian Andes, the old Inca road survives as a worn stone staircase and a retaining wall, the surface polished by centuries of llamas and sandals, with drainage channels still carrying water off the path. It belongs to the Qhapaq Nan, the Inca road system that was listed by UNESCO in 2014, and this segment, which the label ties to two places called Pariachuco and Tauli, shows what the engineering was like at its best. Where a slope was steep, the builders cut steps; where a cliff was in the way, they cut a ledge; where a stream crossed, they set stepping stones or built a bridge of stone slabs.
Read the complete Segment Pariachuco - Tauli write-up.
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Segment Pariachuco - Tauli comes up about 109 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre.
High on the eastern side of the Cordillera Blanca, in the Conchucos valleys of Ancash, a stretch of the old Inca road crosses grassy ridges between Cotocancha and the heights known as Alturas de Torre. This is part of the Qhapaq Ñan, the vast Andean road network that tied the Inca empire together, inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2014. The main trunk here ran north from Huánuco Pampa towards Cajamarca, and in places you can still see stone paving, retaining walls, drainage channels and steps.
Read the complete Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre write-up.
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about 227 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre. Next is back through Segment Pariachuco - Tauli.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Pariachuco - Tauli write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Pariachuco - Tauli, late in the day. Next is Segment Escalerilla/ Casa Blanca - Cerro H.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Escalerilla/ Casa Blanca - Cerro H write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment Escalerilla/ Casa Blanca - Cerro H. That is the ride.
Segment Escalerilla/ Casa Blanca - Cerro H → Segment Pariachuco - Tauli is 109 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Pariachuco - Tauli → Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre is 118 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre → back through Segment Pariachuco - Tauli is 144 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Segment Pariachuco - Tauli → Segment Escalerilla/ Casa Blanca - Cerro H is 109 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.