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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Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
334 km from Huachis to Huachis, about 5 h 44 of riding. It goes by way of Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash, Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku and back through Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
This is high, remote country. The Tambillo to Pincosh segment of the Qhapaq Ñan crosses the puna of the Ancash and Huánuco highlands, east of the Cordillera Blanca, at altitudes of around four thousand metres, part of the stretch of the Inca road that ran north from Cusco through the Andes towards Quito. The road here was the main artery of the empire, with tambos, way stations, every day's walk or so, where travellers, messengers and armies could rest and find supplies. Tambillo, the little tambo, suggests one of those stations. Today, the road survives as a stone-paved path with retaining walls and drainage channels, crossing open grassland, wetlands and passes, and it is one of the best-preserved sections of the network, listed by UNESCO along with the rest of the Qhapaq Ñan.
Read the complete Segment Tambillo - Pincosh write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Tambillo - Pincosh is where the day begins. Next is Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash.
The high Andes of central Peru are less visited than the Cusco region, but the Incas were here too, and the old royal road, the Qhapaq Nan, runs through the mountains of Huanuco Region, with segments surviving in the hills above the towns of Llata and La Union.
Read the complete Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash comes up about 72 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku.
The Qhapaq Ñan, the royal road of the Incas, linked an empire that stretched from what is now Colombia to Chile and Argentina, and in the highlands of Huánuco in central Peru one of its best-preserved stretches runs across the high puna between Tambo Chico and Taparaku.
Read the complete Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 167 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku. Next is back through Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash, late in the day. Next is Segment Tambillo - Pincosh.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Tambillo - Pincosh write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment Tambillo - Pincosh. That is the ride.
Segment Tambillo - Pincosh → Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash → Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku is 95 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku → back through Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash is 95 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash → Segment Tambillo - Pincosh is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.