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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323 km from Nerpio to Nerpio, about 7 h 02 of riding. It goes by way of Gabar, Cueva de las Palamas and back through Gabar. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Senda de la Cabra, the goat path, is the kind of name a mountain gives to the only way across a slope. It lies in the high country of the upper Segura, near Nerpio on the border of Albacete and Murcia provinces, where the Sierra de Segura folds into the Sierra de Alcaraz and the rivers run cold and clear. The painted shelters of the area, Gabar among them, are part of the large group of rock-art sites in the Nerpio district, which includes some of the best-known Levantine and schematic paintings in Spain.
Read the complete Senda de la Cabra write-up.
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Senda de la Cabra is where the day begins. Next is Gabar.
High in the north of Almería province, far from the beaches most people associate with the name, the Sierra de María rises in grey limestone above a plateau of almond orchards and cereal fields. Gabar is a point in the hills between the villages of María and Vélez-Blanco, part of a cluster of rock-art shelters in the Los Vélez district. This corner of Spain is famous for one painted figure in particular: the Indalo, a little stick man holding an arc over his head, found in the Cueva de los Letreros just outside Vélez-Blanco. It has become the emblem of the whole province, painted on doors and sold as a lucky charm, which is a remarkable career for a prehistoric doodle.
Read the complete Gabar write-up.
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Gabar comes up about 94 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva de las Palamas.
Cehegín, in the north-west of the Murcia region, is a town of two faces: a modern lower town, and an old town on a hill, with steep streets, noble houses and churches, declared a historic site. The Cueva de las Palomas, the cave of the doves, lies on the edge of the town, less than a kilometre from the centre, with the larger town of Caravaca de la Cruz about five kilometres away.
Read the complete Cueva de las Palamas write-up.
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about 161 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva de las Palamas. Next is back through Gabar.
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Read the complete Gabar write-up.
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back through Gabar, late in the day. Next is Senda de la Cabra.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Senda de la Cabra write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Senda de la Cabra. That is the ride.
Senda de la Cabra → Gabar is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gabar → Cueva de las Palamas is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de las Palamas → back through Gabar is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Gabar → Senda de la Cabra is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.