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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An 311 km round trip from Puños - roughly 5 h 22 in the saddle. The stops in between: Segment Huaricashash - Isco, Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash and back through Segment Huaricashash - Isco. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata is where the day begins. Next is Segment Huaricashash - Isco.
La Union is a small market town in a high valley of the Huanuco Region, in the central Peruvian Andes, and the Huaricashash to Isco segment lies about eleven kilometres from it, in a landscape of steep terraced hillsides, eucalyptus groves and distant snow peaks. It is the same Inca road network as the neighbouring segments, but this stretch sits close to the greatest Inca site in the region.
Read the complete Segment Huaricashash - Isco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Huaricashash - Isco comes up about 79 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash.
Huanuco Pampa is a place that makes you feel small. On a high plateau at around 3,700 metres, in the central Peruvian Andes, the Incas built one of their largest administrative centres, on the great highway that ran north from Cusco toward Quito. Archaeologists have counted hundreds of storehouses on the surrounding hillsides, once filled with maize, textiles and weapons, and the ruins of a huge central plaza, with a platform called the usnu from which the Inca or his representative could watch ceremonies. It is part of the Qhapaq Nan, the Andean road system recognised by UNESCO in 2014.
Read the complete Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 154 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash. Next is back through Segment Huaricashash - Isco.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Huaricashash - Isco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Huaricashash - Isco, late in the day. Next is Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata. That is the ride.
Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata → Segment Huaricashash - Isco is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Huaricashash - Isco → Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash → back through Segment Huaricashash - Isco is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Huaricashash - Isco → Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.