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.
On the way it passes Segment Pampa del Inca-Finca de Chañaral, Segment Río de La Sal - Pampa del Inca and back through Segment Pampa del Inca-Finca de Chañaral. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 3,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Out here the Incas walked a road through country that most of us would call empty, and they did it without wheels, horses or a single petrol station. The stretch between the Río de la Sal and the Pampa del Inca is one of the Chilean pieces of the Qhapaq Ñan, the great Andean road network that tied Cusco to the far corners of the empire and was listed by UNESCO across six countries in 2014. In the Atacama region it shows up as a faint, dead-straight trace across gravel plains, sometimes edged with stones, sometimes marked by the low ruins of a tambo where runners and caravans once rested.
Read the complete Segment Río de La Sal - Pampa del Inca write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Río de La Sal - Pampa del Inca is where the day begins. Next is Segment Pampa del Inca-Finca de Chañaral.
The Atacama desert is the driest place on earth outside the poles, and the Inca crossed it on foot. The Qhapaq Ñan, the great Inca road system, included a southern branch that ran from Cusco down into what is now northern Chile, and this segment between Pampa del Inca and the farm of Chañaral lies in the region of Atacama, close to the town of Diego de Almagro. It is part of the UNESCO listing of the Qhapaq Ñan in 2014.
Read the complete Segment Pampa del Inca-Finca de Chañaral write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Pampa del Inca-Finca de Chañaral comes up about 19 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Río de La Sal - Pampa del Inca.
Think of this as the same journey seen from the other end of the segment. The label here is Portal del Inca to Río de la Sal, and the first half of that name is the interesting one. Portal suggests a gateway, a place where the trail passes through a narrowing or a pass and the ground begins to change. Without a signed monument underfoot, the useful thing to say is what the surrounding country does: the Atacama's interior basins rise gradually toward the Andean crest, and the Inca engineers used each step in that rise as a staging post.
Read the complete Segment Río de La Sal - Pampa del Inca write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 87 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Río de La Sal - Pampa del Inca. Next is back through Segment Pampa del Inca-Finca de Chañaral.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Pampa del Inca-Finca de Chañaral write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Pampa del Inca-Finca de Chañaral, late in the day.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Río de La Sal - Pampa del Inca write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment Río de La Sal - Pampa del Inca. That is the ride.
Segment Río de La Sal - Pampa del Inca → Segment Pampa del Inca-Finca de Chañaral is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Pampa del Inca-Finca de Chañaral → Segment Río de La Sal - Pampa del Inca is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Río de La Sal - Pampa del Inca → back through Segment Pampa del Inca-Finca de Chañaral is 99 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Pampa del Inca-Finca de Chañaral → Segment Río de La Sal - Pampa del Inca is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.