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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335 km from Paucarcolla to Paucarcolla, about 6 h 36 of riding. On the way it passes Segment Q’omer Moqo-Nicasio, Segment Pancca-Buena Vista and back through Segment Q’omer Moqo-Nicasio. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
The Qhapaq Nan is the great road system of the Inca, a web of paths, causeways and stairways that ran for more than thirty thousand kilometres across the Andes, and a stretch near Puno is part of it. The segment between Paucarcolla and Yanamayo follows the plateau around the northwest shore of Lake Titicaca, where the Inca built a road to link the Collao, the great high plain, with the heart of the empire at Cusco. The route is now part of the UNESCO listing of the Andean Road System, which was granted in 2014 and spans six countries.
Read the complete Segment Paucarcolla-Yanamayo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Paucarcolla-Yanamayo is where the day begins. Next is Segment Q’omer Moqo-Nicasio.
Lampa, twenty-four kilometres away, is known in Peru as the Pink City, and it gives you a place to orient this high, windswept stretch of the altiplano north of Lake Titicaca. The Inca road passed through this country as part of the Qhapaq Ñan, tying Cusco to the Collao plateau, and the segment from Q'omer Moqo, a name that means something like green hillock in Quechua, to Nicasio crosses plains of tall grass, small farms and broad skies.
Read the complete Segment Q’omer Moqo-Nicasio write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Q’omer Moqo-Nicasio comes up about 79 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Pancca-Buena Vista.
A section of the old Inca road, the Qhapaq Ñan, runs through the area, part of the huge network that the Incas built to link Cusco with the far reaches of their empire, now recognised as a World Heritage site. In places the road survives as a paved or stone-edged track that crosses pasture and peat, a reminder of how far a runner or llama train once travelled.
Read the complete Segment Pancca-Buena Vista write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 161 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Pancca-Buena Vista. Next is back through Segment Q’omer Moqo-Nicasio.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Q’omer Moqo-Nicasio write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Q’omer Moqo-Nicasio, late in the day. Next is Segment Paucarcolla-Yanamayo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Paucarcolla-Yanamayo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment Paucarcolla-Yanamayo. That is the ride.
Segment Paucarcolla-Yanamayo → Segment Q’omer Moqo-Nicasio is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Segment Q’omer Moqo-Nicasio → Segment Pancca-Buena Vista is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Segment Pancca-Buena Vista → back through Segment Q’omer Moqo-Nicasio is 98 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Segment Q’omer Moqo-Nicasio → Segment Paucarcolla-Yanamayo is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.