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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
It goes by way of Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d, Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca and back through Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 3,750 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
West of Cuenca the Andes fall away towards the Pacific in one of the most dramatic descents on the continent, from the cold lakes and páramo of the Cajas massif to the hot banana plantations of the coastal plain. Paredones, a small Inca site in the Molleturo area on this western flank, takes its name from the stone walls, paredones, that survive among the grass: remains of buildings, enclosures and a stretch of the Qhapaq Ñan that crossed these mountains between the highlands and the coast. It is part of the Andean road system inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2014.
Read the complete Segment Paredones - Paredones write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Paredones - Paredones is where the day begins. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d comes up about 82 km into the recorded legs. Next is Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca.
Achupallas is a high village in Chimborazo province, about sixteen kilometres from Alausí, and the walking trail named after it, which runs south towards Ingapirca, is one of Ecuador's best-known treks. For motorcyclists the point is the landscape and the road beside it: bare páramo at over three thousand metres, with the volcanic cone of Sangay on a clear day, and little else but sheep, lupins and the odd shepherd's hut.
Read the complete Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 256 km into the recorded legs you reach Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca. Next is back through Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d, late in the day. Next is Segment Paredones - Paredones.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Paredones - Paredones write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment Paredones - Paredones. That is the ride.
Segment Paredones - Paredones → Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d → Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca is 174 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Subsection Achupallas - Ingapirca → back through Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d is 173 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d → Segment Paredones - Paredones is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.