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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230 km from San Luis del Cordero to San Luis del Cordero, about 4 h 33 of riding. The stops in between: Town of San Pedro del Gallo, Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Mapi and back through Town of San Pedro del Gallo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
For nearly three centuries, the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro was the royal road linking Mexico City with Santa Fe in New Mexico, a route some 2,600 kilometres long that carried silver south and settlers, missionaries, soldiers and goods north. In the state of Durango, it crossed a vast semi-desert of scrub, cactus and rocky hills, and the stretch between Nazas and San Pedro del Gallo is one of the sections inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2010. Along the road, haciendas, chapels and waystations grew up wherever water could be found.
Read the complete Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a is where the day begins. Next is Town of San Pedro del Gallo.
San Pedro del Gallo is a very small town in a very big landscape, and that is precisely its appeal. Fewer than a thousand people live here, in the high desert of northern Durango, among dry plains, low mountains and endless sky, and the town grew up as a stop on the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the royal road that linked Mexico City with the northern frontier and Santa Fe. San Pedro del Gallo is one of the places included in the UNESCO listing of the Camino Real, with its church, simple adobe houses and the quiet atmosphere of a place where time moves slowly.
Read the complete Town of San Pedro del Gallo write-up.
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Town of San Pedro del Gallo comes up about 36 km into the recorded legs. Next is Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Mapi.
Mapimí is a silver town that outlived its silver, and the architecture shows it. It sits in the Bolsón de Mapimí, the great desert basin of northern Durango and southern Chihuahua, where the horizon is flat, the air is dry and the sky is mostly empty. The town was founded in the sixteenth century to work mines in the hills nearby, and it grew rich enough to build a church, stone houses and a plaza. Later it was caught up in the fighting of the Mexican Revolution and the town's old buildings still carry the weight of those years.
Read the complete Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Mapi write-up.
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about 115 km into the recorded legs you reach Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Mapi. Next is back through Town of San Pedro del Gallo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Town of San Pedro del Gallo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Town of San Pedro del Gallo, late in the day. Next is Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a. That is the ride.
Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a → Town of San Pedro del Gallo is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Town of San Pedro del Gallo → Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Mapi is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Mapi → back through Town of San Pedro del Gallo is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Town of San Pedro del Gallo → Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.