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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A 438 km round trip from Tanta - roughly 10 h 22 in the saddle. The stops in between: Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco, Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac and back through Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,700 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 81 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
It is part of the Qhapaq Ñan, the Inca road network, a web of about thirty thousand kilometres of paved and stepped paths that linked the empire from Colombia to Chile and Argentina, and which UNESCO listed in 2014 across six countries. A segment named for a portachuelo, a small pass, and a lake, Laguna Escalera, suggests a path that climbs from a valley through a notch in the ridge and drops to a lake on the far side, as Inca roads often do.
Read the complete Segment Portachuelo - Laguna Escalera write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Portachuelo - Laguna Escalera is where the day begins. Next is Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco.
In the mountains east of Lima, high above the desert coast, a stone path clings to the slopes of the province of Huarochirí. It is a section of the Qhapaq Ñan, the great Inca road system, which in this region linked the sacred coastal sanctuary of Pachacamac with Jauja and the central highlands. The segment between Casila Alto and Chillaco is one of the stretches listed by UNESCO in 2014 as part of the transnational Andean Road System. The Inca engineers built it with retaining walls, steps and drainage channels to cope with the steep terrain and seasonal rains, and parts are still used by local farmers and their animals.
Read the complete Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco comes up about 153 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac.
Lima is one of the driest capitals on earth, and yet just south of it, in the hills above the Lurín valley, the desert turns green for a few months every year. The Lomas de Quebrada Verde are fog oases, where the winter mist called garúa, rolling in from the cold Pacific between roughly June and October, condenses on the hillsides and brings to life a brief explosion of grass, flowers, cacti and shrubs, attracting birds, butterflies and the people of Lima, who come here to walk. The segment between Quebrada Verde and Pachacamac is part of the Qhapaq Ñan, the Inca road system, which linked the coast with the highlands.
Read the complete Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 218 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac. Next is back through Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco, late in the day. Next is Segment Portachuelo - Laguna Escalera.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Portachuelo - Laguna Escalera write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment Portachuelo - Laguna Escalera. That is the ride.
Segment Portachuelo - Laguna Escalera → Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco is 153 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco → Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac → back through Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco → Segment Portachuelo - Laguna Escalera is 153 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.