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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
The stops in between: Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d, Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca and back through Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 3,750 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The Inca road in Ecuador came down from the high Andes to the coast, and in the south the line passes through hills above the lowlands near Naranjal, a banana and cacao town in the province of Guayas. This stretch, called Hierba Buena in the listing, belongs to the Qhapaq Ñan system, which UNESCO recognised in 2014, and it sits on the western slopes where the cold páramo drops through cloud forest into warm, humid foothills. The segment is paired with another called Botija Paqui, which suggests a path used by travellers and traders linking highland and coast.
Read the complete Segment Hierba Buena-Hierba Buena write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Hierba Buena-Hierba Buena 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 75 km into the recorded legs. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 249 km into the recorded legs you reach Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca. 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, late in the day. Next is Segment Hierba Buena-Hierba Buena.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Hierba Buena-Hierba Buena write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment Hierba Buena-Hierba Buena. That is the ride.
Segment Hierba Buena-Hierba Buena → Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d → Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca is 174 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca → back through Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d is 173 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d → Segment Hierba Buena-Hierba Buena is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.