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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446 km from Putre to Putre, about 6 h 46 of riding. On the way it passes Colón 10, Desembocadura de Camarones and back through Colón 10. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Socoroma is a village high above the desert, and the road to it is a climb from the coast into another world. Starting from the sea at Arica, the road rises through the arid foothills, past cactus and rocky ridges, and up into the Andean altiplano, passing from sea level to the better part of three thousand metres in a couple of hours. The change is obvious: the air thins, the temperature drops, the light becomes harder and the sky turns a deeper blue. Socoroma sits on the old route between the coast and the high plateau, on terraced slopes cultivated for centuries.
Read the complete Segment Socoroma Sur write-up.
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Segment Socoroma Sur is where the day begins. Next is Colón 10.
In 2004 a construction crew working in the middle of Arica, on a street called Colón, struck something that stopped the job and made the news: human remains, carefully preserved, lying in the sand. The site, known by the number of the street, turned out to be a Chinchorro cemetery in the middle of a modern city, and the excavation that followed uncovered dozens of mummies, some of them over five thousand years old. Colón 10 became one of the key sites of the Chinchorro culture, and is part of the UNESCO listing that was granted in 2021.
Read the complete Colón 10 write-up.
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Colón 10 comes up about 106 km into the recorded legs. Next is Desembocadura de Camarones.
The coast of northern Chile is a place where almost nothing happens, and that is its character. The Camarones river rises in the high Andes and runs west through one of the driest landscapes on Earth, cutting a narrow green valley through the Atacama before it reaches the Pacific at a small mouth south of Arica. In dry years the water gives out before it reaches the sea, and the final stretch is a mixture of reeds, sand and salt pans, a patch of green on a coast of brown and grey. Birds congregate here: gulls, pelicans, terns and, in the right season, waders that come all the way from the northern hemisphere.
Read the complete Desembocadura de Camarones write-up.
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about 222 km into the recorded legs you reach Desembocadura de Camarones. Next is back through Colón 10.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Colón 10 write-up.
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back through Colón 10, late in the day. Next is Segment Socoroma Sur.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Socoroma Sur write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment Socoroma Sur. That is the ride.
Segment Socoroma Sur → Colón 10 is 106 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Colón 10 → Desembocadura de Camarones is 116 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Desembocadura de Camarones → back through Colón 10 is 117 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Colón 10 → Segment Socoroma Sur is 107 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.