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 313 km round trip from Zacatecas - roughly 5 h 44 in the saddle. On the way it passes Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali, Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in, Town of Pinos and back through Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Zacatecas sits high in the Mexican north, around 2,400 metres above the sea, in a bowl of red hills that were once a mountain of silver. The Spanish arrived in the 1540s after local people showed them silver outcrops, and within a few decades the city was one of the richest in the New World, its wealth carried south on the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Road of the Interior Land that ran all the way to Santa Fe. The old centre, with its pink-stone cathedral, narrow stepped lanes and colonial mansions, is inscribed as World Heritage, and the road itself is listed too.
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Tatei Nihuetucame is where the day begins. Next is Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali.
The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Road of the Interior, ran for more than two and a half thousand kilometres from Mexico City to Santa Fe in what is now New Mexico, and carried silver, mercury, supplies and missionaries for nearly three hundred years. UNESCO inscribed a series of its sections and sites in 2010, and the stretch near Ojocaliente, in the state of Zacatecas, passes through high, dry country at around two thousand metres, with the town of Trancoso eight kilometres away and the city of Zacatecas to the west.
Read the complete Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali write-up.
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Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali comes up about 47 km into the recorded legs. Next is Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in.
Villa González Ortega is a small town on the high plateau of Zacatecas, in north central Mexico, and its church of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores is one of the sites recognised as part of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Inland Road. This was the great trade route that linked Mexico City with the silver mines of the north and eventually with Santa Fe in New Mexico, a journey of more than two thousand kilometres across deserts, mountains and plains. For almost three centuries, wagons, mule trains, soldiers, priests and settlers travelled this road, and the towns, churches, haciendas and bridges along it tell the story of the Spanish colonisation of the north. UNESCO listed the route in 2010.
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about 109 km into the recorded legs you reach Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in. Next is Town of Pinos.
Pinos was a silver town before most of Mexico had towns at all. Founded in the late sixteenth century, after silver was found in the hills, it grew into an important mining centre on the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the royal road that ran north from Mexico City toward Santa Fe in New Mexico, carrying silver south and supplies and settlers north. The town is part of the UNESCO listing of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, and it is also a designated Pueblo Mágico, with colonial churches, cobbled streets and old mining buildings.
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Town of Pinos, about halfway. Next is back through Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in sits at 207 km, about halfway. Next is back through Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali comes up about 266 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tatei Nihuetucame.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tatei Nihuetucame write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Tatei Nihuetucame closes the day.
Tatei Nihuetucame → Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali → Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in is 62 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in → Town of Pinos is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Town of Pinos → back through Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in → back through Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali is 61 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali → Tatei Nihuetucame is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.