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 633 km round trip from Socovos - roughly 17 h 01 in the saddle. It goes by way of Cañaica del Calar l, Diosa madre, Fuente del Sabuco I and Guijarral. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Socovos is the sort of village you only find by getting a little lost: a cluster of white houses below a ruined castle in the far southeast of Albacete province, where the plains of La Mancha give way to the tangled ridges of the Sierra de Segura. Solana del Molinico, close by, is one of the rock-art shelters in this corner of Spain that belong to the UNESCO listing for Levantine rock art. The word solana means a sun-facing slope, and many of these painted overhangs face south, catching the warmth on winter days just as they must have done when hunters and gatherers sheltered here.
Read the complete Solana del molinico write-up.
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Solana del molinico is where the day begins. Next is Cañaica del Calar l.
Very few people get here. The Cañaica del Calar lies in the far north-west of the region of Murcia, near the border with Albacete and Andalusia, in a wild landscape of limestone plateaus, pine forests and deep valleys around Moratalla and Nerpio. The calar is the local word for a limestone plateau, and the rock shelters on its edges hold prehistoric paintings in the Levantine style, part of the World Heritage rock art of the Mediterranean. The area around Nerpio is one of the richest in Spain for rock art.
Read the complete Cañaica del Calar l write-up.
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Cañaica del Calar l comes up about 36 km into the recorded legs. Next is Diosa madre.
Some places on a map feel remote; this one actually is. The point named Diosa Madre, mother goddess, lies in the mountains of the Sierra de Segura, in the far southwest of Albacete province, roughly sixteen kilometres from Yeste and not far from the border with Jaén. The mountains themselves are the real experience.
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about 159 km into the recorded legs you reach Diosa madre. Next is Fuente del Sabuco I.
High in the Sierra del Taibilla, in the borderland hills between Moratalla and Nerpio, the shelters of Fuente del Sabuco hold Levantine paintings of hunters, archers and animals, part of the rich rock art of this remote corner where Andalusia, Murcia and Castilla-La Mancha meet. Nerpio and Moratalla between them hold a remarkable number of painted shelters, making this one of the key centres of rock art in Spain, and an interpretation centre in the village explains the paintings and organises visits. The shelter is part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin World Heritage listing.
Read the complete Fuente del Sabuco I write-up.
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Fuente del Sabuco I, about halfway. Next is Guijarral.
Spain's largest protected area is the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas, and it spreads across a long stretch of wooded mountains in Jaén and Albacete. The Guijarral lies on its northern edge, in country close to Yeste, Segura de la Sierra and Orcera, where black pines and holm oaks cover steep slopes and rivers cut gorges between. Here, among rock walls, shelters preserve paintings, part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art listed by UNESCO in 1998, and the sites of the area, such as Zona 1 and the Collado de la Cruz, tell of hunting peoples who lived in these mountains long ago.
Read the complete Guijarral write-up.
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Guijarral sits at 136 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fuente del Sabuco I.
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Read the complete Fuente del Sabuco I write-up.
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back through Fuente del Sabuco I comes up about 407 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Diosa madre.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Diosa madre write-up.
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about 523 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Diosa madre. Next is back through Cañaica del Calar l.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cañaica del Calar l write-up.
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back through Cañaica del Calar l, late in the day. Next is Solana del molinico.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Solana del molinico write-up.
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The route ends here after 633 km.
Solana del molinico → Cañaica del Calar l is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cañaica del Calar l → Diosa madre is 123 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Diosa madre → Fuente del Sabuco I is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fuente del Sabuco I → Guijarral is 116 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Guijarral → back through Fuente del Sabuco I is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fuente del Sabuco I → back through Diosa madre is 116 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Diosa madre → back through Cañaica del Calar l is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cañaica del Calar l → Solana del molinico is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.