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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
The stops in between: Segment Puente del Inca, Subsection Ciénaga de Yalguaraz-San Albert and back through Segment Puente del Inca. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Ranchillos lies in the Uspallata valley in Mendoza province, Argentina, on the high road that runs west from the city of Mendoza toward Chile. The valley is a broad, dry basin at about 1,900 metres between the Precordillera and the High Andes, with poplars along the river, scrubby desert and bare peaks banded in rust, yellow and green. The famous Ruta 7, the road to the Cristo Redentor pass and the border, runs through it, and people have travelled this corridor for a very long time.
Read the complete Segment Ranchillos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Ranchillos is where the day begins. Next is Segment Puente del Inca.
The Puente del Inca is a bridge made by water and rock, and coloured by minerals. Over thousands of years, hot springs and the Las Cuevas river have deposited layers of orange, yellow and white sulphurous crust that formed a natural arch across the gorge, some fifty metres across. It stands in the high Andes of Mendoza province, at roughly 2,700 metres, on the main road between Argentina and Chile, and it was once part of the old trade route over the mountains.
Read the complete Segment Puente del Inca write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Puente del Inca comes up about 56 km into the recorded legs. Next is Subsection Ciénaga de Yalguaraz-San Albert.
Between the provinces of San Juan and Mendoza, the Andes of western Argentina stand up as a dry, enormous wall, and this stretch lies in their rain shadow, where the land is a mix of high steppe, stony ridges and green strips of irrigated valley. The air is clear and thin, the sky is a deep, flat blue, and the sun is fierce even in winter. To the south-west, over the border ridge, stands Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Americas at almost seven thousand metres, though you will not always see it for the haze.
Read the complete Subsection Ciénaga de Yalguaraz-San Albert write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 207 km into the recorded legs you reach Subsection Ciénaga de Yalguaraz-San Albert. Next is back through Segment Puente del Inca.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Puente del Inca write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Puente del Inca, late in the day. Next is Segment Ranchillos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Ranchillos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment Ranchillos. That is the ride.
Segment Ranchillos → Segment Puente del Inca is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Puente del Inca → Subsection Ciénaga de Yalguaraz-San Albert is 151 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Subsection Ciénaga de Yalguaraz-San Albert → back through Segment Puente del Inca is 153 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Segment Puente del Inca → Segment Ranchillos is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.