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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
On the way it passes Guaraquecaba Ecological Station, Guaraguacu Ecological Station, Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese and back through Guaraguacu Ecological Station. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
You cannot ride into Superagui, and that is exactly why it is still here. The national park covers islands, mangroves, beaches and lowland Atlantic Forest on the northern coast of Paraná state in southern Brazil, and it belongs to the UNESCO-listed Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves. Access is by boat, mostly from Paranaguá or from the small town of Guaraqueçaba, and the reward is a stretch of coastline with no roads, few people and a very rare monkey: the black-faced lion tamarin, which scientists only described in 1990 and which lives in a tiny area of these forests.
Read the complete Superagui National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Superagui National Park is where the day begins. Next is Guaraquecaba Ecological Station.
Guaraqueçaba is one of those places in Brazil where the road gives up before the forest does. It lies on the northern shore of the great bay of Paranaguá, on the coast of Paraná state, surrounded by mangroves, islands, tidal channels and the steep, forested slopes of the Serra do Mar. The ecological station protects a large area of mangroves and coastal forest, and it is part of the Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves, a World Heritage Site that preserves some of the best remaining stretches of the Mata Atlântica, a forest that once covered much of Brazil's coast and has now been reduced to a fraction of its former extent.
Read the complete Guaraquecaba Ecological Station write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Guaraquecaba Ecological Station comes up about 38 km into the recorded legs. Next is Guaraguacu Ecological Station.
On the coast of Paraná, between the port city of Paranaguá and the beaches of Pontal do Paraná, the Guaraguaçu Ecological Station protects a stretch of lowland forest, mangrove and sandy restinga along the Guaraguaçu river. It belongs to the network of Atlantic Forest reserves that UNESCO lists for the south and southeast of Brazil, here around the Paranaguá bay, one of the best preserved estuaries on the Brazilian coast. Access to the station itself is restricted, as ecological stations are mainly for research, but the surrounding landscape gives a strong sense of what it protects.
Read the complete Guaraguacu Ecological Station write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 93 km into the recorded legs you reach Guaraguacu Ecological Station. Next is Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese.
In 1873, the province of Paraná in southern Brazil opened a road down the Serra do Mar from Curitiba to the coast, and it is still there, paved with stone setts, winding through the Atlantic forest in more than a dozen kilometres of bends. The Serra do Mar here is part of the Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves, listed by UNESCO in 1999, one of the largest remaining stretches of a forest that once covered much of the Brazilian coast.
Read the complete Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese, about halfway. Next is back through Guaraguacu Ecological Station.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Guaraguacu Ecological Station write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Guaraguacu Ecological Station sits at 193 km, about halfway. Next is back through Guaraquecaba Ecological Station.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Guaraquecaba Ecological Station write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Guaraquecaba Ecological Station comes up about 252 km into the recorded legs. Next is Superagui National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Superagui National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Superagui National Park closes the day.
Superagui National Park → Guaraquecaba Ecological Station is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Guaraquecaba Ecological Station → Guaraguacu Ecological Station is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Guaraguaçu Ecological Station → Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese → back through Guaraguacu Ecological Station is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Guaraguacu Ecological Station → back through Guaraquecaba Ecological Station is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Guaraquecaba Ecological Station → Superagui National Park is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.