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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From Yauya it runs 437 km to Yauya; allow about 7 h 32 of riding. It goes by way of Segment Cajay - Huaritambo, Segment Tambillo - Pincosh, Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash and Segment Taulli - Tambillo. 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 Cajay - Huaritambo.
Few riders ever get this far into the Conchucos, the deep valleys on the eastern side of Peru's Cordillera Blanca, and that is half the reason to come. The label refers to a stretch of the Qhapaq Ñan, the Inca road network that ran for thousands of kilometres along the Andes, here crossing between the hamlet of Cajay and Huaritambo, whose name preserves the word tambo, the waystation where runners and travellers on imperial business could rest, eat and change loads. Parts of the paving, retaining walls and drainage channels still survive on slopes where it is hard to imagine anyone building anything at all.
Read the complete Segment Cajay - Huaritambo write-up.
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Segment Cajay - Huaritambo comes up about 59 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Tambillo - Pincosh.
This is high, remote country. The Tambillo to Pincosh segment of the Qhapaq Ñan crosses the puna of the Ancash and Huánuco highlands, east of the Cordillera Blanca, at altitudes of around four thousand metres, part of the stretch of the Inca road that ran north from Cusco through the Andes towards Quito. The road here was the main artery of the empire, with tambos, way stations, every day's walk or so, where travellers, messengers and armies could rest and find supplies. Tambillo, the little tambo, suggests one of those stations. Today, the road survives as a stone-paved path with retaining walls and drainage channels, crossing open grassland, wetlands and passes, and it is one of the best-preserved sections of the network, listed by UNESCO along with the rest of the Qhapaq Ñan.
Read the complete Segment Tambillo - Pincosh write-up.
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about 125 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Tambillo - Pincosh. Next is Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash.
The high Andes of central Peru are less visited than the Cusco region, but the Incas were here too, and the old royal road, the Qhapaq Nan, runs through the mountains of Huanuco Region, with segments surviving in the hills above the towns of Llata and La Union.
Read the complete Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash write-up.
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Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash, about halfway. Next is Segment Taulli - Tambillo.
In the high valleys of Huánuco, north of Lima and east of the great white wall of the Cordillera Blanca, an Inca road crosses a landscape of stone-walled fields and thatched farms. The Qhapaq Ñan ran north from Cusco to Quito by way of an inland route, and one of its major administrative centres was Huánuco Pampa, a vast planned town on a plateau at about 3,700 metres, with a great plaza, storehouses and barracks, where the emperor's officials gathered tribute and fed travelling armies. Segments of the road around Llata, in the Huamalíes province, connect with that old network.
Read the complete Segment Taulli - Tambillo write-up.
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Segment Taulli - Tambillo sits at 220 km, about halfway. Next is back through Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash.
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Read the complete Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash write-up.
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back through Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash comes up about 264 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Segment Tambillo - Pincosh.
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Read the complete Segment Tambillo - Pincosh write-up.
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about 315 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Segment Tambillo - Pincosh. Next is back through Segment Cajay - Huaritambo.
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Read the complete Segment Cajay - Huaritambo write-up.
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back through Segment Cajay - Huaritambo, late in the day. 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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The route ends here after 437 km.
Segment Otutococha - QÑ-HH-051 → Segment Cajay - Huaritambo is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Cajay - Huaritambo → Segment Tambillo - Pincosh is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Tambillo - Pincosh → Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash → Segment Taulli - Tambillo is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Taulli - Tambillo → back through Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash → back through Segment Tambillo - Pincosh is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Tambillo - Pincosh → back through Segment Cajay - Huaritambo is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Cajay - Huaritambo → Segment Otutococha - QÑ-HH-051 is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.