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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Cananéia it runs 897 km to Cananéia; allow about 15 h 27 of riding. The stops in between: Superagui National Park, Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation and back through Superagui National Park. The line favours views over speed.
The Serra do Itapitangui rises behind Cananéia, on the southern coast of São Paulo state, a modest coastal range covered in dense Atlantic Forest that looks down on one of the best-preserved estuaries in Brazil. The forest here is part of the Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999, which protects a vast area of forest, mangroves and coastal islands stretching from São Paulo into Paraná. The Mata Atlântica once covered much of Brazil's coast; today, only a fraction remains, and this region holds some of the largest and best-preserved stretches.
Read the complete Serra do Itapitangui write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Serra do Itapitangui is where the day begins. Next is Superagui National Park.
You cannot ride into Superagui, and that is exactly why it is still here. The national park covers islands, mangroves, beaches and lowland Atlantic Forest on the northern coast of Paraná state in southern Brazil, and it belongs to the UNESCO-listed Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves. Access is by boat, mostly from Paranaguá or from the small town of Guaraqueçaba, and the reward is a stretch of coastline with no roads, few people and a very rare monkey: the black-faced lion tamarin, which scientists only described in 1990 and which lives in a tiny area of these forests.
Read the complete Superagui National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Superagui National Park comes up about 184 km into the recorded legs. Next is Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation.
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.
about 447 km into the recorded legs you reach Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation. Next is back through Superagui National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Superagui National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Superagui National Park, late in the day. Next is Serra do Itapitangui.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Serra do Itapitangui write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Serra do Itapitangui. That is the ride.
Serra do Itapitangui → Superagui National Park is 184 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Superagui National Park → Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation is 263 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation → back through Superagui National Park is 263 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Superagui National Park → Serra do Itapitangui is 184 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.