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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A 359 km round trip from La Unión - roughly 7 h 52 in the saddle. On the way it passes Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash, Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash and back through Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
La Union is a small market town in a high valley of the Huanuco Region, in the central Peruvian Andes, and the Huaricashash to Isco segment lies about eleven kilometres from it, in a landscape of steep terraced hillsides, eucalyptus groves and distant snow peaks. It is the same Inca road network as the neighbouring segments, but this stretch sits close to the greatest Inca site in the region.
Read the complete Segment Huaricashash - Isco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Huaricashash - Isco is where the day begins. Next is Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash comes up about 58 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 183 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash. Next is back through 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 through Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash, late in the day. Next is Segment Huaricashash - Isco.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Huaricashash - Isco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment Huaricashash - Isco. That is the ride.
Segment Huaricashash - Isco → Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash → Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash is 125 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash → back through Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash is 110 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash → Segment Huaricashash - Isco is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.