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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324 km from Pachas to Pachas, about 7 h 11 of riding. It goes by way of Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash, Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata, Segment Ayash - Taulli and back through Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku is where the day begins. Next is Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash.
Three and a half thousand metres up, on the cold grass plateau of the Peruvian Andes, the Incas built a city that was never meant to be a home. Huánuco Pampa was an administrative centre, a stop on the great road between Cusco and Quito, with a vast central plaza, an ushnu platform from which officials presided over ceremonies, rows of long halls for visitors and hundreds of storehouses lined up on the hillsides. The people who staffed it were moved in from elsewhere, and the labour they owed was paid in cloth, maize and llama wool that fed the road and the army.
Read the complete Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata.
The Qhapaq Ñan, the great road network of the Inca Empire, ran for thousands of kilometres along the Andes, linking the capital Cusco with the far corners of an empire that stretched from Colombia to Chile. In the department of Huánuco, in central Peru, one of its best preserved sections crosses the high puna between the administrative centre of Huánuco Pampa and the valleys to the north, and the segment between Taparaku and the Tambo de Llata is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2014.
Read the complete Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 132 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata. Next is Segment Ayash - Taulli.
East of the Cordillera Blanca, the Andes break into a jumble of high plateaus and deep valleys draining toward the Marañón and the Amazon, and the Inca road ran through this country on its way from Cusco to Quito. The Ayash to Taulli segment is a stretch of the Qhapaq Ñan in the highlands of Huánuco, near the town of Llata, part of the UNESCO-listed Andean road system. It runs through the puna, the high grassland above the tree line, where the wind blows cold and the views stretch for miles over ridges and valleys. In places, the original road survives, with stone paving, retaining walls, steps and drainage channels, and walking a section of it is the best way to understand how the Incas moved people and goods across this vertical landscape.
Read the complete Segment Ayash - Taulli write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Ayash - Taulli, about halfway. Next is back through Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata.
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Read the complete Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata write-up.
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back through Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata sits at 119 km, about halfway. Next is back through Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash comes up about 290 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku closes the day.
Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku → Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash → Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata is 97 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata → Segment Ayash - Taulli is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Ayash - Taulli → back through Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata → back through Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash is 97 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash → Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.