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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363 km from Tanta to Tanta, about 8 h 49 of riding. It goes by way of Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi, Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco, Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay and back through Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,700 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
90 km on Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi → Segment Casila Alto - Chi.
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.
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Segment Portachuelo - Laguna Escalera is where the day begins. Next is Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi.
The mountains above Lima rise quickly from the desert coast, and within a couple of hours the city's sprawl gives way to steep valleys, terraced slopes and high villages perched on spurs. The segment of the Inca road between San Juan de Tantaranche and Huarochirí runs through this country, part of the Qhapaq Ñan route that linked the sanctuary of Pachacamac on the coast with the highland centre of Xauxa, crossing near the sacred mountain of Pariacaca.
Read the complete Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi write-up.
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Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi comes up about 65 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 155 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco. Next is Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay.
East of Lima, the Rímac valley cuts up into the Andes between brown, bare mountains, and the land here is a dry, stony slope broken by green patches of irrigated orchards and fields wherever there is water. The segment from Sisicaya to Santa Rosa de Chontay belongs to the Qhapaq Ñan, the Inca road network of some thirty thousand kilometres, which UNESCO listed in 2014. In this part of the world the roads connected the coastal valleys with the highlands, and a short walk along the surviving stonework gives a sense of the mountains the Incas had to cross.
Read the complete Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay write-up.
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Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay, about halfway. Next is back through Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco.
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Read the complete Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco write-up.
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back through Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco sits at 149 km, about halfway. Next is back through Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi comes up about 297 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Segment Portachuelo - Laguna Escalera closes the day.
Segment Portachuelo - Laguna Escalera → Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi → Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco → Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay → back through Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco → back through Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi → Segment Portachuelo - Laguna Escalera is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.