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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A 391 km round trip from La Joya - roughly 6 h 30 in the saddle. It goes by way of Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán, Temple of the town of San José de Avino and back through Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Pipes of a giant church organ, frozen in stone: that is what the Spanish saw when they named the Sierra de Órganos, a range of rock formations in the north-west of the state of Zacatecas, near the border with Durango. The columns and pinnacles of volcanic rock rise from the high desert, carved by wind and water into strange shapes, and the area is a national park, protected for its geology and its landscape of grassland, oak and pine.
Read the complete Sierra de Órganos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Sierra de Órganos is where the day begins. Next is Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán.
East of the city of Durango, where the high plateau of northern Mexico stretches flat and wide under a vast sky, the old hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán stands among irrigated fields and dusty farm roads. Its buildings, with thick adobe walls, a chapel and the remains of the main house, recall the centuries when great landed estates dominated this region, raising cattle, growing wheat and supplying the mining towns of the north. The hacienda is one of the sites listed as part of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Road of the Interior Land, which UNESCO inscribed in 2010. This was the long trade and colonisation route that ran from Mexico City north to Santa Fe in present-day New Mexico, more than two thousand kilometres through deserts and mountains.
Read the complete Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán write-up.
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Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán comes up about 112 km into the recorded legs. Next is Temple of the town of San José de Avino.
Silver built this road, and the old church at San Jose de Avino is one of the buildings that mark it. The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro was the great highway of colonial Mexico, running more than two thousand kilometres from Mexico City north to Santa Fe in New Mexico, used by mule trains carrying silver south and supplies north for nearly three centuries. A section of it, with a number of towns and monuments along the way, was listed as a World Heritage site in 2010. Avino was a mining settlement in the hills of Durango, one of the earliest silver camps of the north, and the temple stands in the village as a reminder of the money and faith that came with the mine.
Read the complete Temple of the town of San José de Avino write-up.
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about 196 km into the recorded legs you reach Temple of the town of San José de Avino. Next is back through Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán, late in the day. Next is Sierra de Órganos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sierra de Órganos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Sierra de Órganos. That is the ride.
Sierra de Órganos → Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán is 112 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán → Temple of the town of San José de Avino is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Temple of the town of San José de Avino → back through Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Former hacienda of San Diego de Navacoyán → Sierra de Órganos is 111 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.