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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From Conchucos it runs 512 km to Conchucos; allow about 15 h 00 of riding. The stops in between: Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre, Segment Canrash - Torrepampa, Segment QÑ-HH-051 - Inca Misana and back through Segment Canrash - Torrepampa. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 3,900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
The Inca built roads the way other empires built walls, as a statement of power, and the high stretches in the northern Andes of Peru show it best. This segment of the Qhapaq Nan, the great network that the Incas extended over some thirty thousand kilometres, runs through steep country between the Santa river canyon and the high valleys of Conchucos, where the road goes where it must, up flights of stone steps, along retaining walls and across ravines on bridges of woven grass rope.
Read the complete Segment Quinrraycueva - Pariachuco write-up.
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Segment Quinrraycueva - Pariachuco is where the day begins. Next is Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre.
High on the eastern side of the Cordillera Blanca, in the Conchucos valleys of Ancash, a stretch of the old Inca road crosses grassy ridges between Cotocancha and the heights known as Alturas de Torre. This is part of the Qhapaq Ñan, the vast Andean road network that tied the Inca empire together, inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2014. The main trunk here ran north from Huánuco Pampa towards Cajamarca, and in places you can still see stone paving, retaining walls, drainage channels and steps.
Read the complete Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre write-up.
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Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre comes up about 102 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Canrash - Torrepampa.
The Inca road network, the Qhapaq Ñan, once linked an empire stretching from Colombia to Chile, and this segment, between Canrash and Torrepampa, runs through the high valleys of the Conchucos region in Ancash, east of the Cordillera Blanca. The Inca road here was a stone-paved trail, with steps, retaining walls and drainage channels, built for runners, soldiers and llama caravans rather than wheels. Much of it survives, winding along hillsides above the river valleys, and it is part of the transnational World Heritage listing for the Andean road system.
Read the complete Segment Canrash - Torrepampa write-up.
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about 165 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Canrash - Torrepampa. Next is Segment QÑ-HH-051 - Inca Misana.
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, about halfway. Next is back through Segment Canrash - Torrepampa.
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Read the complete Segment Canrash - Torrepampa write-up.
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back through Segment Canrash - Torrepampa sits at 174 km, about halfway. Next is back through Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre comes up about 409 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Quinrraycueva - Pariachuco.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Quinrraycueva - Pariachuco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Quinrraycueva - Pariachuco closes the day.
Segment Quinrraycueva - Pariachuco → Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre is 102 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre → Segment Canrash - Torrepampa is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Canrash - Torrepampa → Segment QÑ-HH-051 - Inca Misana is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment QÑ-HH-051 - Inca Misana → back through Segment Canrash - Torrepampa is 91 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Canrash - Torrepampa → back through Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Cotocancha - Alturas de Torre → Segment Quinrraycueva - Pariachuco is 102 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.