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 327 km round trip from Tanta - roughly 7 h 54 in the saddle. It goes by way of Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi, Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco, Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay and back through Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,700 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
90 km on Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi → Segment Casila Alto - Chi.
High above Lima, where the desert coast gives way to the bare, windswept grasslands of the Andean puna, an old stone path crosses the mountains of Huarochirí. This is a segment of the Qhapaq Ñan, the great Inca road network that UNESCO listed in 2014, and it is one of the many trails that linked the Pacific coast with the central highlands. The region has a particular literary fame: a Quechua manuscript from around 1600, known as the Huarochirí Manuscript, records the myths and rituals of the local communities, with stories of mountain gods, floods and the great shrine of Pachacamac on the coast. It is among the few surviving texts that tell the pre-Hispanic stories in their own words.
Read the complete Segment Masho - Piticocha write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Masho - Piticocha is where the day begins. Next is Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi.
The mountains above Lima rise quickly from the desert coast, and within a couple of hours the city's sprawl gives way to steep valleys, terraced slopes and high villages perched on spurs. The segment of the Inca road between San Juan de Tantaranche and Huarochirí runs through this country, part of the Qhapaq Ñan route that linked the sanctuary of Pachacamac on the coast with the highland centre of Xauxa, crossing near the sacred mountain of Pariacaca.
Read the complete Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi comes up about 47 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco.
In the mountains east of Lima, high above the desert coast, a stone path clings to the slopes of the province of Huarochirí. It is a section of the Qhapaq Ñan, the great Inca road system, which in this region linked the sacred coastal sanctuary of Pachacamac with Jauja and the central highlands. The segment between Casila Alto and Chillaco is one of the stretches listed by UNESCO in 2014 as part of the transnational Andean Road System. The Inca engineers built it with retaining walls, steps and drainage channels to cope with the steep terrain and seasonal rains, and parts are still used by local farmers and their animals.
Read the complete Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 137 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco. Next is Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay.
East of Lima, the Rímac valley cuts up into the Andes between brown, bare mountains, and the land here is a dry, stony slope broken by green patches of irrigated orchards and fields wherever there is water. The segment from Sisicaya to Santa Rosa de Chontay belongs to the Qhapaq Ñan, the Inca road network of some thirty thousand kilometres, which UNESCO listed in 2014. In this part of the world the roads connected the coastal valleys with the highlands, and a short walk along the surviving stonework gives a sense of the mountains the Incas had to cross.
Read the complete Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay, about halfway. Next is back through Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco sits at 141 km, about halfway. Next is back through Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi comes up about 279 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Masho - Piticocha.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Masho - Piticocha write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Masho - Piticocha closes the day.
Segment Masho - Piticocha → Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi → Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco → Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay → back through Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco → back through Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi → Segment Masho - Piticocha is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.