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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A 498 km round trip from La Herradura - roughly 8 h 36 in the saddle. On the way it passes Natsitacua, Tuy Mayau, Huacuri Quitenie and back through Tuy Mayau. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Every year, Wixárika pilgrims walk or drive hundreds of kilometres from their homeland in the Sierra Madre Occidental to the desert of Wirikuta in San Luis Potosí, where they collect peyote, the sacred cactus they call hikuri, and perform ceremonies to renew the world. Along the way, they stop at sacred places, and Tatei Matinieri, a group of springs in the semi-desert of the Altiplano, is one of the most important. The Wixárika route through these sacred sites was listed by UNESCO in 2025, recognising a living tradition that goes back centuries.
Read the complete Tatei Matiniere write-up.
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Tatei Matiniere is where the day begins. Next is Natsitacua.
Every year, groups of Wixárika people, known in Spanish as Huichols, leave their homes in the Sierra Madre Occidental and walk, ride or drive hundreds of kilometres east to Wirikuta, the sacred desert in San Luis Potosí where, in their tradition, the sun was born. Along the way they stop at a series of sacred places, springs, hills and water holes, where they leave offerings and perform ceremonies. Natsitacua is one of these places, out on the high plains near the border of Zacatecas and San Luis Potosí, and the names of the neighbouring stops on the route, such as Nihuetaritsié, are in the Wixárika language.
Read the complete Natsitacua write-up.
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Natsitacua comes up about 66 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tuy Mayau.
Out in the high desert of San Luis Potosí, near the town of Charcas, lies a landscape that for the Wixárika people, often called the Huichol, is the most sacred place on earth. Wirikuta is the land where, in their cosmology, the sun was born, and each year pilgrims walk or travel hundreds of kilometres from their homeland in the Sierra Madre Occidental of Jalisco and Nayarit to reach it, visiting a chain of sacred springs, hills and other sites along the way.
Read the complete Tuy Mayau write-up.
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about 148 km into the recorded legs you reach Tuy Mayau. Next is Huacuri Quitenie.
Somewhere in the creosote flats north of Charcas, in San Luis Potosí, the land that the Wixárika people call Wirikuta begins to feel different, even to a visitor who knows nothing of its meaning. The horizon widens, the mountains of the Sierra de Catorce rise to the east, and on a clear morning the whole desert seems to hum. Huacuri Quitenie is one of the sacred places along the Wixárika pilgrimage route to Wirikuta, where pilgrims stop to pray and leave offerings on their way to Leunar, the hill they call Cerro Quemado, where the sun was born.
Read the complete Huacuri Quitenie write-up.
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Huacuri Quitenie, about halfway. Next is back through Tuy Mayau.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tuy Mayau write-up.
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back through Tuy Mayau sits at 332 km, about halfway. Next is back through Natsitacua.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Natsitacua write-up.
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back through Natsitacua comes up about 429 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tatei Matiniere.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tatei Matiniere write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Tatei Matiniere closes the day.
Tatei Matiniere → Natsitacua is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Natsitacua → Tuy Mayau is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tuy Mayau → Huacuri Quitenie is 100 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Huacuri Quitenie → back through Tuy Mayau is 100 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tuy Mayau → back through Natsitacua is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Natsitacua → Tatei Matiniere is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.