Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay and Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi
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Recorded distance
232 km
Riding-time estimate
5 h 31
Journey
Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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 232 km round trip from Chosica - roughly 5 h 31 in the saddle. On the way it passes Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco, Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi and back through Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Scenic road chapters
Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay → Segment Casila Alto - Chill
This part of the ride is 26 km of Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay → Segment Casila Alto - Chill.
Chapter facts
Length
26 km
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay is where the day begins. Next is Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco.
2. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi.
3. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay to Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco
Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay → Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco to Segment San Juan de Tantaranche - Huarochi
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 to back through Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco
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 to Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay
back through Segment Casila Alto - Chillaco → Segment Sisicaya - Santa Rosa de Chontay is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.