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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521 km from Yauya to Yauya, about 10 h 47 of riding. On the way it passes Segment Taulli - Tambillo, Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash and back through Segment Taulli - Tambillo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Five hundred years ago a runner could have passed this spot carrying a knotted quipu or a message for the governor in Huánuco Pampa, handing it on at the next post in a relay that crossed the Andes faster than a horse. This short stretch, catalogued as segment QÑ-HH-051 near Inca Misana, is a fragment of the Qhapaq Ñan, the Inca road system that linked an empire from southern Colombia to central Chile. The whole network was listed by UNESCO in 2014 across six countries, and what you find on the ground here in Ancash is often modest: a line of stone paving, a retaining wall, a set of steps cut into a slope, running across high grassland with the mountains standing all around.
Read the complete Segment QÑ-HH-051 - Inca Misana write-up.
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Segment QÑ-HH-051 - Inca Misana is where the day begins. Next is Segment Taulli - Tambillo.
In the high valleys of Huánuco, north of Lima and east of the great white wall of the Cordillera Blanca, an Inca road crosses a landscape of stone-walled fields and thatched farms. The Qhapaq Ñan ran north from Cusco to Quito by way of an inland route, and one of its major administrative centres was Huánuco Pampa, a vast planned town on a plateau at about 3,700 metres, with a great plaza, storehouses and barracks, where the emperor's officials gathered tribute and fed travelling armies. Segments of the road around Llata, in the Huamalíes province, connect with that old network.
Read the complete Segment Taulli - Tambillo write-up.
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Segment Taulli - Tambillo comes up about 150 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash.
Three and a half thousand metres up, on the cold grass plateau of the Peruvian Andes, the Incas built a city that was never meant to be a home. Huánuco Pampa was an administrative centre, a stop on the great road between Cusco and Quito, with a vast central plaza, an ushnu platform from which officials presided over ceremonies, rows of long halls for visitors and hundreds of storehouses lined up on the hillsides. The people who staffed it were moved in from elsewhere, and the labour they owed was paid in cloth, maize and llama wool that fed the road and the army.
Read the complete Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash write-up.
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about 267 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash. Next is back through Segment Taulli - Tambillo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Taulli - Tambillo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Taulli - Tambillo, late in the day. Next is Segment QÑ-HH-051 - Inca Misana.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment QÑ-HH-051 - Inca Misana write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment QÑ-HH-051 - Inca Misana. That is the ride.
Segment QÑ-HH-051 - Inca Misana → Segment Taulli - Tambillo is 150 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Taulli - Tambillo → Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash is 117 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash → back through Segment Taulli - Tambillo is 105 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Segment Taulli - Tambillo → Segment QÑ-HH-051 - Inca Misana is 150 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.