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 Campina Grande do Sul it runs 181 km to Campina Grande do Sul; allow about 4 h 02 of riding. On the way it passes Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese, Guaraguacu Ecological Station and back through Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 36 km this is Estrada da Graciosa, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Serra da Graciosa is the steep green escarpment that separates the high plateau around Curitiba from the coastal plain of Paraná, and the old Graciosa road that runs down it is among the most scenic in southern Brazil. The road was opened in the nineteenth century, linking the interior with the port of Antonina on the Atlantic coast, and for a long time it was the main way for mule trains carrying mate and goods down to the sea. It is about thirty kilometres long, and parts of it are still paved with old stone, which gives it a rattling, slippery character in the wet.
Read the complete Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation is where the day begins. Next is Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese.
In 1873, the province of Paraná in southern Brazil opened a road down the Serra do Mar from Curitiba to the coast, and it is still there, paved with stone setts, winding through the Atlantic forest in more than a dozen kilometres of bends. The Serra do Mar here is part of the Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves, listed by UNESCO in 1999, one of the largest remaining stretches of a forest that once covered much of the Brazilian coast.
Read the complete Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese comes up about 36 km into the recorded legs. Next is Guaraguacu Ecological Station.
On the coast of Paraná, between the port city of Paranaguá and the beaches of Pontal do Paraná, the Guaraguaçu Ecological Station protects a stretch of lowland forest, mangrove and sandy restinga along the Guaraguaçu river. It belongs to the network of Atlantic Forest reserves that UNESCO lists for the south and southeast of Brazil, here around the Paranaguá bay, one of the best preserved estuaries on the Brazilian coast. Access to the station itself is restricted, as ecological stations are mainly for research, but the surrounding landscape gives a strong sense of what it protects.
Read the complete Guaraguacu Ecological Station write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 94 km into the recorded legs you reach Guaraguacu Ecological Station. Next is back through Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese, late in the day. Next is Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation. That is the ride.
Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation → Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese → Guaraguacu Ecological Station is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Guaraguaçu Ecological Station → back through Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese → Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.