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 126 km round trip from Cieneguilla - roughly 2 h 48 in the saddle. On the way it passes Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac, Ancient Reduction of Santiago Apostle of C and back through Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,300 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 30 km this is Peru Coastal Panamericana South, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The names tell a story about the land. Molle is the Peruvian pepper tree, with its weeping branches and pink berries, and a huarangal is a grove of huarango, the tough, deep-rooted desert tree that once covered much of the Peruvian coast. Between these two places, in the lower hills east of Lima toward the Lurín valley, runs a short stretch of the Qhapaq Ñan, the Inca road network. Here the road descended from the highlands toward the sanctuary of Pachacamac on the coast, one of the most important religious centres of the ancient Andes, where an oracle drew pilgrims from far and wide. The segment is part of the UNESCO listing of the Andean Road System.
Read the complete Segment Molle - Huarangal write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Molle - Huarangal is where the day begins. Next is Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac.
Lima is one of the driest capitals on earth, and yet just south of it, in the hills above the Lurín valley, the desert turns green for a few months every year. The Lomas de Quebrada Verde are fog oases, where the winter mist called garúa, rolling in from the cold Pacific between roughly June and October, condenses on the hillsides and brings to life a brief explosion of grass, flowers, cacti and shrubs, attracting birds, butterflies and the people of Lima, who come here to walk. The segment between Quebrada Verde and Pachacamac is part of the Qhapaq Ñan, the Inca road system, which linked the coast with the highlands.
Read the complete Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac comes up about 33 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ancient Reduction of Santiago Apostle of C.
The Spanish had a word for what they did to the Andean countryside in the 1570s: reduccion. Under the viceroy Francisco de Toledo, scattered hamlets were gathered into planned towns around a plaza and a church, so that the people could be counted, taxed, taught the catechism and put to work, and a settlement named for Santiago, the apostle the conquistadors invoked in battle, was one of hundreds of such foundations.
Read the complete Ancient Reduction of Santiago Apostle of C write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 63 km into the recorded legs you reach Ancient Reduction of Santiago Apostle of C. Next is back through Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac, late in the day. Next is Segment Molle - Huarangal.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Molle - Huarangal write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment Molle - Huarangal. That is the ride.
Segment Molle - Huarangal → Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac → Ancient Reduction of Santiago Apostle of C is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ancient Reduction of Santiago Apostle of C → back through Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac → Segment Molle - Huarangal is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.