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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384 km from La Unión to La Unión, about 10 h 50 of riding. On the way it passes 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. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Huanuco Pampa is a place that makes you feel small. On a high plateau at around 3,700 metres, in the central Peruvian Andes, the Incas built one of their largest administrative centres, on the great highway that ran north from Cusco toward Quito. Archaeologists have counted hundreds of storehouses on the surrounding hillsides, once filled with maize, textiles and weapons, and the ruins of a huge central plaza, with a platform called the usnu from which the Inca or his representative could watch ceremonies. It is part of the Qhapaq Nan, the Andean road system recognised by UNESCO in 2014.
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 39 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 133 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 122 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.
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back through Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku comes up about 344 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 39 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 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.