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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From Chosica it runs 100 km to Chosica; allow about 2 h 26 of riding. The stops in between: Segment Molle - Huarangal, Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac and back through Segment Molle - Huarangal. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,600 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
East of Lima, the Rímac valley cuts up into the Andes between brown, bare mountains, and the land here is a dry, stony slope broken by green patches of irrigated orchards and fields wherever there is water. The segment from Sisicaya to Santa Rosa de Chontay belongs to the Qhapaq Ñan, the Inca road network of some thirty thousand kilometres, which UNESCO listed in 2014. In this part of the world the roads connected the coastal valleys with the highlands, and a short walk along the surviving stonework gives a sense of the mountains the Incas had to cross.
Read the complete Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay is where the day begins. Next is Segment Molle - Huarangal.
If a place could be known by its tree, Huarangal would be known by the huarango. This slow-growing, deep-rooted tree of the Peruvian coast, a kind of mesquite, once covered the dry valleys and fed the ancient people with its sweet pods, and the old Inca road passed through it. Much of the forest has been cut for charcoal and farmland, but a few trees survive, and the name of the place keeps the memory. The segment between Molle and Huarangal is a stretch of the Qhapaq Nan, the Inca road network that was listed as a World Heritage site in 2014, in the dry foothills of the Andes east of Lima, where the Rimac valley opens out and the desert meets the mountains.
Read the complete Segment Molle - Huarangal write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Molle - Huarangal comes up about 17 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac.
Lima is one of the driest capitals on earth, and yet just south of it, in the hills above the Lurín valley, the desert turns green for a few months every year. The Lomas de Quebrada Verde are fog oases, where the winter mist called garúa, rolling in from the cold Pacific between roughly June and October, condenses on the hillsides and brings to life a brief explosion of grass, flowers, cacti and shrubs, attracting birds, butterflies and the people of Lima, who come here to walk. The segment between Quebrada Verde and Pachacamac is part of the Qhapaq Ñan, the Inca road system, which linked the coast with the highlands.
Read the complete Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 48 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac. Next is back through Segment Molle - Huarangal.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Molle - Huarangal write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Molle - Huarangal, late in the day. Next is Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay. That is the ride.
Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay → Segment Molle - Huarangal is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Molle - Huarangal → Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Quebrada Verde - Pachacamac → back through Segment Molle - Huarangal is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Molle - Huarangal → Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.