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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
126 km from Cieneguilla to Cieneguilla, about 2 h 47 of riding. It goes by way of Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac, Historic Centre of Lima and back through Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 33 km this is Peru Coastal Panamericana South, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
If a place could be known by its tree, Huarangal would be known by the huarango. This slow-growing, deep-rooted tree of the Peruvian coast, a kind of mesquite, once covered the dry valleys and fed the ancient people with its sweet pods, and the old Inca road passed through it. Much of the forest has been cut for charcoal and farmland, but a few trees survive, and the name of the place keeps the memory. The segment between Molle and Huarangal is a stretch of the Qhapaq Nan, the Inca road network that was listed as a World Heritage site in 2014, in the dry foothills of the Andes east of Lima, where the Rimac valley opens out and the desert meets the mountains.
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 31 km into the recorded legs. Next is Historic Centre of Lima.
Francisco Pizarro founded Lima in January 1535, laying it out around a plaza that is still called the Plaza Mayor, and for the next three centuries it was the capital of Spain's South American empire. The grid of streets around the plaza is the centre today, a mix of baroque churches, carved wooden balconies in the Moorish style, colonial mansions and government buildings. The cathedral, which holds Pizarro's tomb, stands on one side, and the Convent of San Francisco, with its library and underground catacombs, lies a few streets away.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Lima write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 64 km into the recorded legs you reach Historic Centre of Lima. 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 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac → Historic Centre of Lima is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic Centre of Lima → back through Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac → Segment Molle - Huarangal is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.