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 371 km round trip from Hueyapan - roughly 7 h 16 in the saddle. On the way it passes Temple and Former Convent of Saint William, Xochimilco 3, Central University City Campus of the Univ and Ancient Convent of the Nativity. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Hueyapan sits high on the southern flank of Popocatépetl, in the far northeast of Morelos, where pine forest and orchards climb toward the volcano and the air is noticeably thinner than in the valleys below. In the sixteenth century, Dominican friars built a convent here dedicated to Santo Domingo, with a simple church, a cloister and a walled atrium where the indigenous population gathered for worship. It is one of the fourteen sites in the UNESCO listing of the Earliest Sixteenth-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatépetl, and while it is more modest than some of its neighbours, its setting is one of the most dramatic.
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Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic is where the day begins. Next is Temple and Former Convent of Saint William.
Totolapan is a small town on the northern slopes of the Sierra de Chichinautzin, in the state of Morelos, and its Augustinian convent of San Guillermo is one of the fourteen sixteenth-century monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl that UNESCO listed in 1994. The friars who came to Mexico after the conquest built these fortress-like complexes to convert the indigenous population, with huge walled atriums where crowds could gather for open-air masses, chapels at the corners for processions, and austere churches with thick walls. Totolapan's convent is relatively modest, but its simplicity and setting give it a special charm.
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Temple and Former Convent of Saint William comes up about 41 km into the recorded legs. Next is Xochimilco 3.
San Andrés Mixquic sits on the southeastern edge of Mexico City, in the borough of Tláhuac, and it feels like a village despite being part of one of the largest cities on earth. It is famous throughout Mexico for its Day of the Dead celebrations, when the cemetery around the church of San Andrés fills with marigolds, candles and families who keep vigil through the night of 2 November, and the whole town turns into a festival of altars, music and food. The rest of the year, Mixquic is a quiet place of canals, chinampas and vegetable fields.
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about 81 km into the recorded legs you reach Xochimilco 3. Next is Central University City Campus of the Univ.
The main campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, known as Ciudad Universitaria, is one of the great architectural achievements of the twentieth century. Built between 1949 and 1952 on a field of lava from the ancient eruption of the Xitle volcano, in the south of Mexico City, it brought together dozens of architects, engineers and artists to create a modern campus that would blend international modernism with Mexican traditions. Its most famous building is the Central Library, a tall block covered entirely in a mosaic by Juan O'Gorman, depicting the history of Mexico from pre-Hispanic times to the modern era. UNESCO listed the campus in 2007.
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Central University City Campus of the Univ, about halfway. Next is Ancient Convent of the Nativity.
Tepoztlán sits at the foot of a wall of jagged volcanic cliffs in northern Morelos, and on the highest ridge above town, a small Aztec pyramid, the Tepozteco, dedicated to the god of pulque, clings to the rock. Down in the town, the Dominican convent of the Nativity, built in the mid-sixteenth century, is one of the monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl listed by UNESCO in 1994. Its massive church, with a facade carved with angels, the sun and the moon, and a large atrium, is impressive, and the cloister has remains of colourful mural paintings. Part of the convent houses a museum.
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Ancient Convent of the Nativity sits at 161 km, about halfway. Next is back through Central University City Campus of the Univ.
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back through Central University City Campus of the Univ comes up about 257 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Xochimilco 3.
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about 291 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Xochimilco 3. Next is back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint William.
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back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint William, late in the day. Next is Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic.
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Read the complete Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic write-up.
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The route ends here after 371 km.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic → Temple and Former Convent of Saint William is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint William → Xochimilco 3 is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Xochimilco 3 → Central University City Campus of the Univ is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Central University City Campus of the Univ → Ancient Convent of the Nativity is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ancient Convent of the Nativity → back through Central University City Campus of the Univ is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Central University City Campus of the Univ → back through Xochimilco 3 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Xochimilco 3 → back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint William is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint William → Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.