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.
It goes by way of Segment Paredones - Paredones, Segment Mamamag - Mamamag, Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d and back through Segment Mamamag - Mamamag. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 3,750 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 32 km this is Avenue of the Volcanoes, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
If Mamamag is the top of the climb, Santa Martha is the other end of the story: the foothills where the Andes tip into the coastal plain, thirty-odd kilometres from Naranjal and a long way from anywhere that feels like highland. The air is thicker and wetter here, and the vegetation changes from tussock grass to ferns, bamboo and the dense green of the western slopes.
Read the complete Segment Santa Martha - Santa Martha write-up.
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Segment Santa Martha - Santa Martha is where the day begins. Next is Segment Paredones - Paredones.
West of Cuenca the Andes fall away towards the Pacific in one of the most dramatic descents on the continent, from the cold lakes and páramo of the Cajas massif to the hot banana plantations of the coastal plain. Paredones, a small Inca site in the Molleturo area on this western flank, takes its name from the stone walls, paredones, that survive among the grass: remains of buildings, enclosures and a stretch of the Qhapaq Ñan that crossed these mountains between the highlands and the coast. It is part of the Andean road system inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2014.
Read the complete Segment Paredones - Paredones write-up.
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Segment Paredones - Paredones comes up about 67 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Mamamag - Mamamag.
West of Cuenca the Andes lift quickly, and the Mamamag label sits on the edge of that rise, about twenty-four kilometres from the city, where the cultivated valleys give way to cold, open páramo. The nearest real town is Cuenca itself, a university city of cobbled colonial streets at roughly two and a half thousand metres, and anything you need, from fuel to a decent soup, you should sort out there before you climb.
Read the complete Segment Mamamag - Mamamag write-up.
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about 118 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Mamamag - Mamamag. Next is Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d.
High in the southern Ecuadorian Andes, at about 2,500 metres, Cuenca was founded by the Spanish in 1557 on a grid plan, on the site of an Inca city called Tomebamba, which was itself built over an earlier Cañari settlement. The colonial centre, with its cobbled streets, whitewashed houses with wooden balconies, churches and plazas, was inscribed by UNESCO in 1999, and the blue-tiled domes of the new cathedral are the city's landmark. The Tomebamba river runs through the city, lined with parks and old houses perched on the bank.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d write-up.
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Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d, about halfway. Next is back through Segment Mamamag - Mamamag.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Mamamag - Mamamag write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Mamamag - Mamamag sits at 129 km, about halfway. Next is back through Segment Paredones - Paredones.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Paredones - Paredones write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Paredones - Paredones comes up about 233 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Santa Martha - Santa Martha.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Santa Martha - Santa Martha write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Santa Martha - Santa Martha closes the day.
Segment Santa Martha - Santa Martha → Segment Paredones - Paredones is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Paredones - Paredones → Segment Mamamag - Mamamag is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Mamamag - Mamamag → Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos d → back through Segment Mamamag - Mamamag is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Mamamag - Mamamag → back through Segment Paredones - Paredones is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Paredones - Paredones → Segment Santa Martha - Santa Martha is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.