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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Huachis it runs 200 km to Huachis; allow about 5 h 58 of riding. The stops in between: Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash, Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku and back through Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,300 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Taulli - Tambillo is where the day begins. Next is Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash.
The high Andes of central Peru are less visited than the Cusco region, but the Incas were here too, and the old royal road, the Qhapaq Nan, runs through the mountains of Huanuco Region, with segments surviving in the hills above the towns of Llata and La Union.
Read the complete Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 88 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku. Next is back through Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash, 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 Inka Hamash - Ayash is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash → Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku → back through Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash → Segment Taulli - Tambillo is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.