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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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A 321 km round trip from Santa Rosa de Tastil - roughly 5 h 31 in the saddle. On the way it passes Subsection Abra de ChaupiyacoLas Capillas, Segment Las Peras-Sauzalito and back through Subsection Abra de ChaupiyacoLas Capillas. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 39 km this is Abra del Acay Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Quebrada del Toro is a long, narrow valley cut through the Andes of Salta, in north-west Argentina, and the old road that follows it was a trade route for centuries. Santa Rosa de Tastil sits on a terrace above the river, at around 3,200 metres, and it was a town: a settlement of stone houses, perhaps several hundred of them, built in the fourteenth century and inhabited until shortly before the Spanish conquest. People here farmed, kept llamas and traded across the mountains, and when the Incas arrived they connected the place to their road system, the Qhapaq Nan, which was inscribed by UNESCO in 2014.
Read the complete Segment Santa Rosa de Tastil write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Santa Rosa de Tastil is where the day begins. Next is Subsection Abra de ChaupiyacoLas Capillas.
The Incas built a road across the Andes, and in the north of Argentina it still runs under the hooves of mules and the boots of walkers. The Qhapaq Nan, the Great Inca Road, was a network of some 30,000 kilometres linking the empire from Colombia to Chile and Argentina, and parts of it were inscribed on the World Heritage list in 2014 across six countries. The segment of Chaupiyaco to Las Capillas, in the province of Salta, runs through the high valley of the Quebrada del Toro, one of the old routes between the Altiplano and the lowlands, and the section near Santa Rosa de Tastil follows the course used long before the Inca, by herders with llamas.
Read the complete Subsection Abra de ChaupiyacoLas Capillas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Subsection Abra de ChaupiyacoLas Capillas comes up about 60 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Las Peras-Sauzalito.
This stretch lies in the high valleys of Salta province, in the dry north-west of Argentina, and it belongs to the great Inca road system the Incas called Qhapaq Ñan. UNESCO listed the network in 2014, a web of tracks and stone-built stairways, bridges and storehouses reaching from Ecuador to central Chile, built to link a mountain empire with no wheeled carts. Messengers on foot, the chasqui, ran in relays along these routes, and llama caravans carried loads on the long climbs. Some stretches are still walkable, and sections survive near modern roads.
Read the complete Segment Las Peras-Sauzalito write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 162 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Las Peras-Sauzalito. Next is back through Subsection Abra de ChaupiyacoLas Capillas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Subsection Abra de ChaupiyacoLas Capillas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Subsection Abra de ChaupiyacoLas Capillas, late in the day. Next is Segment Santa Rosa de Tastil.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Santa Rosa de Tastil write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment Santa Rosa de Tastil. That is the ride.
Segment Santa Rosa de Tastil → Subsection Abra de ChaupiyacoLas Capillas is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Subsection Abra de ChaupiyacoLas Capillas → Segment Las Peras-Sauzalito is 102 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Las Peras-Sauzalito → back through Subsection Abra de ChaupiyacoLas Capillas is 102 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Subsection Abra de ChaupiyacoLas Capillas → Segment Santa Rosa de Tastil is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.