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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506 km from Yauya to Yauya, about 14 h 34 of riding. It goes by way of Segment Canrash - Torrepampa, Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre, Segment Quinrraycueva - Pariachuco and back through Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 3,950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 Canrash - Torrepampa.
The Inca road network, the Qhapaq Ñan, once linked an empire stretching from Colombia to Chile, and this segment, between Canrash and Torrepampa, runs through the high valleys of the Conchucos region in Ancash, east of the Cordillera Blanca. The Inca road here was a stone-paved trail, with steps, retaining walls and drainage channels, built for runners, soldiers and llama caravans rather than wheels. Much of it survives, winding along hillsides above the river valleys, and it is part of the transnational World Heritage listing for the Andean road system.
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Segment Canrash - Torrepampa comes up about 87 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre.
High on the eastern side of the Cordillera Blanca, in the Conchucos valleys of Ancash, a stretch of the old Inca road crosses grassy ridges between Cotocancha and the heights known as Alturas de Torre. This is part of the Qhapaq Ñan, the vast Andean road network that tied the Inca empire together, inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2014. The main trunk here ran north from Huánuco Pampa towards Cajamarca, and in places you can still see stone paving, retaining walls, drainage channels and steps.
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about 150 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre. Next is Segment Quinrraycueva - Pariachuco.
The Inca built roads the way other empires built walls, as a statement of power, and the high stretches in the northern Andes of Peru show it best. This segment of the Qhapaq Nan, the great network that the Incas extended over some thirty thousand kilometres, runs through steep country between the Santa river canyon and the high valleys of Conchucos, where the road goes where it must, up flights of stone steps, along retaining walls and across ravines on bridges of woven grass rope.
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Segment Quinrraycueva - Pariachuco, about halfway. Next is back through Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre.
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Read the complete Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre write-up.
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back through Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre sits at 185 km, about halfway. Next is back through Segment Canrash - Torrepampa.
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back through Segment Canrash - Torrepampa comes up about 418 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Otutococha - QÑ-HH-051.
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Read the complete Segment Otutococha - QÑ-HH-051 write-up.
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Segment Otutococha - QÑ-HH-051 closes the day.
Segment Otutococha - QÑ-HH-051 → Segment Canrash - Torrepampa is 87 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Canrash - Torrepampa → Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre → Segment Quinrraycueva - Pariachuco is 102 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Segment Quinrraycueva - Pariachuco → back through Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre is 103 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre → back through Segment Canrash - Torrepampa is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Canrash - Torrepampa → Segment Otutococha - QÑ-HH-051 is 87 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.