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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342 km from Alausí to Alausí, about 6 h 32 of riding. On the way it passes Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez, Segment Cerro de Cojitambo, Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d and back through Segment Cerro de Cojitambo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 3,750 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 31 km this is Avenue of the Volcanoes, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
High in the Andes of Chimborazo province, south of Alausí, a narrow path of fitted stone winds across the páramo, the cold grassland that covers the Ecuadorian highlands above about 3,500 metres. It is part of the Qhapaq Ñan, the Inca road system, and this stretch belongs to the route that links the Inca site of Ingapirca with the highlands to the north. Before the Spanish arrived, the Inca built paved paths, stairways and waystations across this country, and parts of them are still in use, walked by herders and, in recent decades, by trekkers following the well-known route from Achupallas to Ingapirca.
Read the complete Segment Palcañán Grande - Palcañán Chico write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Palcañán Grande - Palcañán Chico is where the day begins. Next is Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez.
High in the southern Andes of Ecuador, in the province of Cañar, a stretch of Inca road runs between the small towns of El Tambo and Honorato Vásquez, part of the Qhapaq Ñan World Heritage Site. The name El Tambo itself comes from the Inca word for a waystation, where travellers could rest and find supplies. This route was part of the great road that ran north from Cusco to Quito, and in this area it passed close to Ingapirca, the largest Inca site in Ecuador.
Read the complete Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez comes up about 91 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Cerro de Cojitambo.
Cojitambo is a rocky hill that rises abruptly above the valley of Azogues, in the province of Cañar, in the southern Andes of Ecuador. Its summit and slopes hold the remains of a Cañari and Inca settlement, with walls, terraces and stairways, and the Inca road ran past it, a segment of the Qhapaq Ñan listed by UNESCO. The Cañari were the people of this region before the Inca conquest, and they resisted fiercely, later siding with the Spanish against their Inca overlords. Today the hill is also a popular spot for rock climbing, with routes on its cliffs.
Read the complete Segment Cerro de Cojitambo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 141 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Cerro de Cojitambo. Next is Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d.
High in the southern Ecuadorian Andes, at about 2,500 metres, Cuenca was founded by the Spanish in 1557 on a grid plan, on the site of an Inca city called Tomebamba, which was itself built over an earlier Cañari settlement. The colonial centre, with its cobbled streets, whitewashed houses with wooden balconies, churches and plazas, was inscribed by UNESCO in 1999, and the blue-tiled domes of the new cathedral are the city's landmark. The Tomebamba river runs through the city, lined with parks and old houses perched on the bank.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d write-up.
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Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d, about halfway. Next is back through Segment Cerro de Cojitambo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Cerro de Cojitambo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Cerro de Cojitambo sits at 140 km, about halfway. Next is back through Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez comes up about 252 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Palcañán Grande - Palcañán Chico.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Palcañán Grande - Palcañán Chico write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Palcañán Grande - Palcañán Chico closes the day.
Segment Palcañán Grande - Palcañán Chico → Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez is 91 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez → Segment Cerro de Cojitambo is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Cerro de Cojitambo → Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d → back through Segment Cerro de Cojitambo is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Cerro de Cojitambo → back through Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment El Tambo - Honorato Vásquez → Segment Palcañán Grande - Palcañán Chico is 91 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.