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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718 km from Huachis to Huachis, about 19 h 26 of riding. On the way it passes Segment QÑ-HH-051 - Inca Misana, Segment Quinrraycueva - Pariachuco and back through Segment QÑ-HH-051 - Inca Misana. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 Segment QÑ-HH-051 - Inca Misana.
Five hundred years ago a runner could have passed this spot carrying a knotted quipu or a message for the governor in Huánuco Pampa, handing it on at the next post in a relay that crossed the Andes faster than a horse. This short stretch, catalogued as segment QÑ-HH-051 near Inca Misana, is a fragment of the Qhapaq Ñan, the Inca road system that linked an empire from southern Colombia to central Chile. The whole network was listed by UNESCO in 2014 across six countries, and what you find on the ground here in Ancash is often modest: a line of stone paving, a retaining wall, a set of steps cut into a slope, running across high grassland with the mountains standing all around.
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Segment QÑ-HH-051 - Inca Misana comes up about 150 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Quinrraycueva - Pariachuco.
The Inca built roads the way other empires built walls, as a statement of power, and the high stretches in the northern Andes of Peru show it best. This segment of the Qhapaq Nan, the great network that the Incas extended over some thirty thousand kilometres, runs through steep country between the Santa river canyon and the high valleys of Conchucos, where the road goes where it must, up flights of stone steps, along retaining walls and across ravines on bridges of woven grass rope.
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about 358 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Quinrraycueva - Pariachuco. Next is back through Segment QÑ-HH-051 - Inca Misana.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment QÑ-HH-051 - Inca Misana write-up.
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back through Segment QÑ-HH-051 - Inca Misana, late in the day. 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.
Back at Segment Taulli - Tambillo. That is the ride.
Segment Taulli - Tambillo → Segment QÑ-HH-051 - Inca Misana is 150 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment QÑ-HH-051 - Inca Misana → Segment Quinrraycueva - Pariachuco is 208 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Segment Quinrraycueva - Pariachuco → back through Segment QÑ-HH-051 - Inca Misana is 207 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Segment QÑ-HH-051 - Inca Misana → Segment Taulli - Tambillo is 152 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.