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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73 km from Cieneguilla to Cieneguilla, about 1 h 24 of riding. It goes by way of Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay, Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco and back through Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 3,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The ride follows Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay → Segment Casila Alto - Chill for 17 km.
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 Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay.
The Peruvian coast is a desert, and the road up from Lima to the mountains is one of the most dramatic climbs in the Andes. Sisicaya and Santa Rosa de Chontay lie in the Huarochirí province, in the hills above the Rímac valley east of Lima, where the Inca road once climbed from the coastal plain to the high sierra. This stretch of the Qhapaq Ñan, part of the six-country UNESCO listing of 2014, follows ridges and dry valleys, with stone steps, retaining walls and terraces that are still visible if you know where to look.
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 comes up about 18 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 35 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco. Next is back through Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay, 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 Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay → Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco → back through Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay → Segment Molle - Huarangal is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.