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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From Huachis it runs 447 km to Huachis; allow about 8 h 55 of riding. The stops in between: Chavin, Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata, Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash and back through Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
In the high valleys of Huánuco, north of Lima and east of the great white wall of the Cordillera Blanca, an Inca road crosses a landscape of stone-walled fields and thatched farms. The Qhapaq Ñan ran north from Cusco to Quito by way of an inland route, and one of its major administrative centres was Huánuco Pampa, a vast planned town on a plateau at about 3,700 metres, with a great plaza, storehouses and barracks, where the emperor's officials gathered tribute and fed travelling armies. Segments of the road around Llata, in the Huamalíes province, connect with that old network.
Read the complete Segment Taulli - Tambillo write-up.
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Segment Taulli - Tambillo is where the day begins. Next is Chavin.
Three thousand years ago, priests at Chavín de Huántar led pilgrims into a labyrinth of dark stone galleries beneath a temple, where at the heart of the maze stood a carved granite pillar, the Lanzón, depicting a fanged deity. The Chavín culture, flourishing between roughly 1200 and 500 BC, spread its art and religious ideas across much of the Andes, and its temple complex in the Mosna valley is one of the most important archaeological sites in South America, inscribed by UNESCO in 1985. Look out for the cabezas clavas, carved stone heads that once projected from the temple walls, showing a transformation from human to jaguar or bird.
Read the complete Chavin write-up.
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Chavín comes up about 61 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.
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about 121 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata. 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, about halfway. Next is back through Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata write-up.
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back through Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata sits at 129 km, about halfway. Next is back through Chavin.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chavin write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Chavin comes up about 386 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Taulli - Tambillo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Taulli - Tambillo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Taulli - Tambillo closes the day.
Segment Taulli - Tambillo → Chavin is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chavín → Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata → Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash is 108 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash → back through Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata is 97 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata → back through Chavin is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chavin → Segment Taulli - Tambillo is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.