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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From Puños it runs 516 km to Puños; allow about 8 h 53 of riding. On the way it passes Segment Huaricashash - Isco, Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash, Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku and back through Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku. 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.
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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.
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Segment Huaricashash - Isco comes up about 54 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.
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about 106 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash. 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.
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Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku, about halfway. 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.
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Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash sits at 259 km, about halfway. Next is back through Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku.
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Read the complete Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku write-up.
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back through Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku comes up about 326 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash.
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Read the complete Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash write-up.
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about 407 km into the recorded legs you reach back through 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.
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back through Segment Huaricashash - Isco, late in the day. Next is Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata.
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Read the complete Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata write-up.
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The route ends here after 516 km.
Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata → Segment Huaricashash - Isco is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Huaricashash - Isco → Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash → Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku is 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku → Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash → back through Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku → back through Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash is 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash → back through Segment Huaricashash - Isco is 52 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 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.