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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From La Unión it runs 376 km to La Unión; allow about 10 h 36 of riding. It goes by way of Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku, Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash, Chavin and back through Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Three and a half thousand metres up, on the cold grass plateau of the Peruvian Andes, the Incas built a city that was never meant to be a home. Huánuco Pampa was an administrative centre, a stop on the great road between Cusco and Quito, with a vast central plaza, an ushnu platform from which officials presided over ceremonies, rows of long halls for visitors and hundreds of storehouses lined up on the hillsides. The people who staffed it were moved in from elsewhere, and the labour they owed was paid in cloth, maize and llama wool that fed the road and the army.
Read the complete Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash write-up.
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Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash is where the day begins. Next is Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku.
The Qhapaq Ñan, the royal road of the Incas, linked an empire that stretched from what is now Colombia to Chile and Argentina, and in the highlands of Huánuco in central Peru one of its best-preserved stretches runs across the high puna between Tambo Chico and Taparaku.
Read the complete Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku write-up.
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Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash.
The high Andes of central Peru are less visited than the Cusco region, but the Incas were here too, and the old royal road, the Qhapaq Nan, runs through the mountains of Huanuco Region, with segments surviving in the hills above the towns of Llata and La Union.
Read the complete Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash write-up.
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about 129 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash. Next is Chavin.
Three thousand years ago, priests at Chavín de Huántar led pilgrims into a labyrinth of dark stone galleries beneath a temple, where at the heart of the maze stood a carved granite pillar, the Lanzón, depicting a fanged deity. The Chavín culture, flourishing between roughly 1200 and 500 BC, spread its art and religious ideas across much of the Andes, and its temple complex in the Mosna valley is one of the most important archaeological sites in South America, inscribed by UNESCO in 1985. Look out for the cabezas clavas, carved stone heads that once projected from the temple walls, showing a transformation from human to jaguar or bird.
Read the complete Chavin write-up.
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Chavin, about halfway. Next is back through Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash.
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Read the complete Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash write-up.
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back through Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash sits at 115 km, about halfway. Next is back through Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku comes up about 340 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash closes the day.
Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash → Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku → Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash → Chavin is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chavín → back through Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash → back through Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku → Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.