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 412 km round trip from San Luis del Cordero - roughly 6 h 34 in the saddle. It goes by way of Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien, Mine of Ojuela and back through Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,750 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 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.
Read the complete Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien write-up.
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Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien comes up about 69 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mine of Ojuela.
The suspension bridge at Ojuela is the first thing most visitors see, and it hangs across a canyon in the desert of Durango like something out of a Western. Built in 1898 by the firm of the Roebling family, the engineers behind the Brooklyn Bridge, it spans about three hundred metres and carries the old mine track across the gorge to the entrance of the Ojuela mine. For years the bridge was in a bad state, and it has been restored for walkers, though you should cross carefully and listen to the guides.
Read the complete Mine of Ojuela write-up.
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about 207 km into the recorded legs you reach Mine of Ojuela. Next is back through Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien, 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 → Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien → Mine of Ojuela is 138 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Mine of Ojuela → back through Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien is 137 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Chapel of the Refugio of the former hacien → Stretch of the Camino Real between Nazas a is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.