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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224 km from Vélez-Blanco to Vélez-Blanco, about 3 h 50 of riding. It goes by way of Los Paradores, Cueva Ambrosio and back through Los Paradores. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
A tejera is a tile works, a kiln where roof tiles were baked from local clay, and the name is common across the dry south-east of Spain. The Tejera on your map is near Vélez-Blanco, about two kilometres from the village, in the country that falls away from the Sierra María towards the plain, where red soil, almond terraces and clumps of pine and juniper make up the view.
Read the complete Tejera write-up.
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Tejera is where the day begins. Next is Los Paradores.
The far north of Almería province is not the desert most people imagine. Around Vélez-Blanco and María the land rises into the Sierra de María-Los Vélez Natural Park, a range of limestone peaks with pine and holm oak forest, high plains of cereal and almond and villages that can see snow in winter. Los Paradores is one of the rock art sites in this area, part of the UNESCO listing of the Mediterranean Iberian rock art, and the region holds one of the most famous painted shelters in Spain, the Cueva de los Letreros, home of the Indalo, a stick figure holding an arc over its head that has become the symbol of Almería.
Read the complete Los Paradores write-up.
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Los Paradores comes up about 54 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva Ambrosio.
Cueva Ambrosio belongs to the high, empty north of Almería province, on the dry plateau where Andalusia runs into Murcia, fifteen or so kilometres out of Vélez-Blanco. This is a landscape of broad, pale fields, almond and cereal farms, low limestone ridges and long skylines, with the pines of the Sierra María to the south and almost nothing built on the horizon.
Read the complete Cueva Ambrosio write-up.
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about 110 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva Ambrosio. Next is back through Los Paradores.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Los Paradores write-up.
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back through Los Paradores, late in the day. Next is Tejera.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tejera write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Tejera. That is the ride.
Tejera → Los Paradores is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Los Paradores → Cueva Ambrosio is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva Ambrosio → back through Los Paradores is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Los Paradores → Tejera is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.