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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Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Puños it runs 842 km to Puños; allow about 14 h 30 of riding. The stops in between: Huascarán National Park, Segment Canrash - Torrepampa and back through Huascarán National Park. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 66 km this is Peru Huascaran Circuit, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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.
Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash is where the day begins. Next is Huascarán National Park.
The Cordillera Blanca is the highest tropical mountain range on earth, and Huascarán National Park protects most of it: dozens of peaks over six thousand metres, hundreds of glaciers and glacial lakes, and high valleys of grass and rock. Huascarán itself, at 6,768 metres, is the highest mountain in Peru, a twin-summited giant of ice and snow that dominates the Callejón de Huaylas, the long valley of the Santa river below. The park was listed by UNESCO in 1985, and it is one of the great mountain landscapes of the world.
Read the complete Huascarán National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Huascarán National Park comes up about 215 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Canrash - Torrepampa.
The Inca road network, the Qhapaq Ñan, once linked an empire stretching from Colombia to Chile, and this segment, between Canrash and Torrepampa, runs through the high valleys of the Conchucos region in Ancash, east of the Cordillera Blanca. The Inca road here was a stone-paved trail, with steps, retaining walls and drainage channels, built for runners, soldiers and llama caravans rather than wheels. Much of it survives, winding along hillsides above the river valleys, and it is part of the transnational World Heritage listing for the Andean road system.
Read the complete Segment Canrash - Torrepampa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 421 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Canrash - Torrepampa. Next is back through Huascarán National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Huascarán National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Huascarán National Park, late in the day. Next is Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash. That is the ride.
Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash → Huascarán National Park is 215 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Huascarán National Park → Segment Canrash - Torrepampa is 206 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Segment Canrash - Torrepampa → back through Huascarán National Park is 206 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Huascarán National Park → Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash is 215 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.