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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312 km from Oaxtepec to Oaxtepec, about 5 h 00 of riding. It goes by way of Central University City Campus of the Univ, Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan and back through Central University City Campus of the Univ. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Oaxtepec sits at roughly thirteen hundred metres on the warm southern side of the volcanic highlands of Morelos, where the air is noticeably softer than in Mexico City, an hour or two north. The Dominican convent here is one of the sixteenth-century monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl that UNESCO listed in 1994, a group built by the first friars after the conquest, with fortress-like walls, a large atrium for open-air preaching and thick buttresses against the earthquakes that have always visited this region.
Read the complete Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic is where the day begins. 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.
Read the complete Central University City Campus of the Univ write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Central University City Campus of the Univ comes up about 89 km into the recorded legs. Next is Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan.
When the Aztecs came across Teotihuacan, centuries after it had been abandoned, they thought it must have been built by gods and named it the place where the gods were made. The city had reached its peak between about the first and sixth centuries, with perhaps well over a hundred thousand people, a grid of streets, apartment compounds and some of the largest pyramids in the Americas. The Pyramid of the Sun is a huge stepped mass, and the Pyramid of the Moon sits at the far end of the Avenue of the Dead, a long, broad processional road that makes the city feel grand even now.
Read the complete Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 155 km into the recorded legs you reach Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan. Next is back through Central University City Campus of the Univ.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Central University City Campus of the Univ write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Central University City Campus of the Univ, late in the day. Next is Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic. That is the ride.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic → Central University City Campus of the Univ is 89 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Central University City Campus of the Univ → Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan → back through Central University City Campus of the Univ is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Central University City Campus of the Univ → Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic is 89 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.