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 224 km round trip from Vélez-Blanco - roughly 3 h 53 in the saddle. The stops in between: Los Paradores, Lavadero Tello V and back through Los Paradores. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 50 km into the recorded legs. Next is Lavadero Tello V.
Los Vélez, in the north of Almería, is wool and almond country, and its history is one of shepherds, noblemen and Moriscos. For centuries flocks of sheep moved between the winter grazing of the lowlands and the summer pastures of the high sierras along old drove roads, and the area had a thriving wool trade. The shelter here, one of a group around Vélez-Blanco, carries prehistoric paintings, belonging to the Levantine art tradition that UNESCO recognises.
Read the complete Lavadero Tello V write-up.
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about 112 km into the recorded legs you reach Lavadero Tello V. Next is back through Los Paradores.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Los Paradores write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
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 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Los Paradores → Lavadero Tello V is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lavadero Tello V → back through Los Paradores is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Los Paradores → Tejera is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.