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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139 km from San Luis del Cordero to San Luis del Cordero, about 2 h 37 of riding. The stops in between: Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza, Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien and back through Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,750 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
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Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a is where the day begins. Next is Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza.
Nazas is a small town on the river of the same name in the north of the state of Durango, where the Sierra Madre Occidental gives way to the high, dry basins of the Mexican interior. It sits on the route of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the old royal road that ran north from Mexico City to Santa Fe, carrying silver, mercury, goods and settlers for nearly three centuries. A group of its historic buildings, around the main square and church, was included in the UNESCO listing of the Camino Real in 2010.
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Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza comes up about 22 km into the recorded legs. Next is Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien.
Hacienda chapels tell you a lot about colonial Mexico. They were built by landowners who controlled vast estates of cattle, crops or mines, and they served as places of worship for the owners, their families and the workers who lived and laboured on the estate. The Chapel of the Refugio, once part of a hacienda near Cuencamé in the state of Durango, is one of the sites included in the UNESCO listing of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the royal road that ran from Mexico City to Santa Fe and carried silver, goods, missionaries and settlers across the northern frontier for nearly three centuries.
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about 70 km into the recorded legs you reach Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien. Next is back through Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza, 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 → Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza → Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien → back through Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Architectonic ensemble of the Town of Naza → Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.