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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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706 km from Yauya to Yauya, about 12 h 11 of riding. It goes by way of Segment Ayash - Taulli, Huascarán National Park and back through Segment Ayash - Taulli. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
East of the Cordillera Blanca, in the region of Ancash known as the Conchucos, the Inca road system, the Qhapaq Ñan, crossed some of the most rugged terrain of its entire network. This segment, near the small town of Yauya, is part of the main road that ran north from Cusco to Quito through the high Andes, linking administrative centres such as Huánuco Pampa to the south. The Inca engineers laid stone paving, built steps on steep slopes, retaining walls and drainage channels, and stretches of the road can still be walked today, threading across high grasslands and past lakes at altitudes well over three and a half thousand metres. The whole network, which crosses six countries, became a World Heritage site in 2014.
Read the complete Segment Otutococha - QÑ-HH-051 write-up.
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Segment Otutococha - QÑ-HH-051 is where the day begins. Next is Segment Ayash - Taulli.
East of the Cordillera Blanca, the Andes break into a jumble of high plateaus and deep valleys draining toward the Marañón and the Amazon, and the Inca road ran through this country on its way from Cusco to Quito. The Ayash to Taulli segment is a stretch of the Qhapaq Ñan in the highlands of Huánuco, near the town of Llata, part of the UNESCO-listed Andean road system. It runs through the puna, the high grassland above the tree line, where the wind blows cold and the views stretch for miles over ridges and valleys. In places, the original road survives, with stone paving, retaining walls, steps and drainage channels, and walking a section of it is the best way to understand how the Incas moved people and goods across this vertical landscape.
Read the complete Segment Ayash - Taulli write-up.
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Segment Ayash - Taulli comes up about 180 km into the recorded legs. Next is Huascarán National Park.
The Cordillera Blanca is the highest tropical mountain range on earth, and Huascarán National Park protects most of it: dozens of peaks over six thousand metres, hundreds of glaciers and glacial lakes, and high valleys of grass and rock. Huascarán itself, at 6,768 metres, is the highest mountain in Peru, a twin-summited giant of ice and snow that dominates the Callejón de Huaylas, the long valley of the Santa river below. The park was listed by UNESCO in 1985, and it is one of the great mountain landscapes of the world.
Read the complete Huascarán National Park write-up.
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about 354 km into the recorded legs you reach Huascarán National Park. Next is back through Segment Ayash - Taulli.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Ayash - Taulli write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Ayash - Taulli, late in the day. Next is Segment Otutococha - QÑ-HH-051.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Otutococha - QÑ-HH-051 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment Otutococha - QÑ-HH-051. That is the ride.
Segment Otutococha - QÑ-HH-051 → Segment Ayash - Taulli is 180 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Ayash - Taulli → Huascarán National Park is 174 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Huascarán National Park → back through Segment Ayash - Taulli is 174 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Ayash - Taulli → Segment Otutococha - QÑ-HH-051 is 180 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.