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 77 km round trip from Cieneguilla - roughly 1 h 28 in the saddle. The stops in between: 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. The line favours views over speed.
This part of the ride is 20 km of Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay → Segment Casila Alto - Chill.
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 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 comes up about 17 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 37 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 17 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 20 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 23 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 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.