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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A 339 km round trip from Chosica - roughly 8 h 03 in the saddle. On the way it passes Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco, Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi, Segment Masho - Piticocha and back through Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,700 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
27 km on Segment Santa Rosa de Chontay - Molle → Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco.
East of Lima, the land climbs fast. The Rímac valley begins at the coast as a green ribbon through the desert and rises toward the Andes, and Santa Rosa de Chontay and Molle lie in the foothills above Chosica, a town of nearly ninety thousand about ten kilometres off. Here the coastal fog that blankets Lima for much of the year gives way to sun, which is why Chosica earned the nickname of the city of the sun and why wealthy Lima families kept weekend houses here.
Read the complete Segment Santa Rosa de Chontay - Molle write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Santa Rosa de Chontay - Molle is where the day begins. Next is Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco.
In the mountains east of Lima, high above the desert coast, a stone path clings to the slopes of the province of Huarochirí. It is a section of the Qhapaq Ñan, the great Inca road system, which in this region linked the sacred coastal sanctuary of Pachacamac with Jauja and the central highlands. The segment between Casila Alto and Chillaco is one of the stretches listed by UNESCO in 2014 as part of the transnational Andean Road System. The Inca engineers built it with retaining walls, steps and drainage channels to cope with the steep terrain and seasonal rains, and parts are still used by local farmers and their animals.
Read the complete Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi.
The mountains above Lima rise quickly from the desert coast, and within a couple of hours the city's sprawl gives way to steep valleys, terraced slopes and high villages perched on spurs. The segment of the Inca road between San Juan de Tantaranche and Huarochirí runs through this country, part of the Qhapaq Ñan route that linked the sanctuary of Pachacamac on the coast with the highland centre of Xauxa, crossing near the sacred mountain of Pariacaca.
Read the complete Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 117 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi. Next is Segment Masho - Piticocha.
High above Lima, where the desert coast gives way to the bare, windswept grasslands of the Andean puna, an old stone path crosses the mountains of Huarochirí. This is a segment of the Qhapaq Ñan, the great Inca road network that UNESCO listed in 2014, and it is one of the many trails that linked the Pacific coast with the central highlands. The region has a particular literary fame: a Quechua manuscript from around 1600, known as the Huarochirí Manuscript, records the myths and rituals of the local communities, with stories of mountain gods, floods and the great shrine of Pachacamac on the coast. It is among the few surviving texts that tell the pre-Hispanic stories in their own words.
Read the complete Segment Masho - Piticocha write-up.
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Segment Masho - Piticocha, about halfway. Next is back through Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi.
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Read the complete Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi write-up.
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back through Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi sits at 145 km, about halfway. Next is back through Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco comes up about 313 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Santa Rosa de Chontay - Molle.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Santa Rosa de Chontay - Molle write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Santa Rosa de Chontay - Molle closes the day.
Segment Santa Rosa de Chontay - Molle → Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco → Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi → Segment Masho - Piticocha is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Masho - Piticocha → back through Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi → back through Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco → Segment Santa Rosa de Chontay - Molle is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.