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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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111 km from La Unión to La Unión, about 1 h 55 of riding. On the way it passes Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku, Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash and back through Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,300 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku comes up about 28 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 56 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash. 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, late in the day. 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.
Back at Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash. That is the ride.
Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash → Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku → Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash → back through Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku is 28 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 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.