CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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On the way it passes Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez, Sangay National Park and back through Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 3,750 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
West of Cuenca the Andes lift quickly, and the Mamamag label sits on the edge of that rise, about twenty-four kilometres from the city, where the cultivated valleys give way to cold, open páramo. The nearest real town is Cuenca itself, a university city of cobbled colonial streets at roughly two and a half thousand metres, and anything you need, from fuel to a decent soup, you should sort out there before you climb.
Read the complete Segment Mamamag - Mamamag write-up.
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Segment Mamamag - Mamamag is where the day begins. Next is Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez.
High in the southern Andes of Ecuador, in the province of Cañar, a stretch of Inca road runs between the small towns of El Tambo and Honorato Vásquez, part of the Qhapaq Ñan World Heritage Site. The name El Tambo itself comes from the Inca word for a waystation, where travellers could rest and find supplies. This route was part of the great road that ran north from Cusco to Quito, and in this area it passed close to Ingapirca, the largest Inca site in Ecuador.
Read the complete Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez write-up.
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Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez comes up 98 km in. Next is Sangay National Park.
Sangay is one of the most active volcanoes on Earth, a cone of a little over five thousand two hundred metres that has been erupting more or less continuously for centuries. It stands in the eastern Andes of Ecuador, at the centre of a national park that was listed as a World Heritage Site in 1983, and the park covers a remarkable range of habitats, from glaciers and páramo down through cloud forest to Amazonian rainforest. The altitude difference between the top of the mountain and the lowest part of the park is more than four thousand metres.
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197 km in you reach Sangay National Park. Next is back through Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez write-up.
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back through Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez, late in the day. Next is Segment Mamamag - Mamamag.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Mamamag - Mamamag write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment Mamamag - Mamamag. That is the ride.
Segment Mamamag - Mamamag → Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez → Sangay National Park is 135 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Sangay National Park → back through Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez is 135 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez → Segment Mamamag - Mamamag is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.