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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117 km from Ocuituco to Ocuituco, about 1 h 58 of riding. On the way it passes Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the S, Ancient Convent of the Nativity and back through Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the S. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,600 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Ocuituco claims the first Augustinian convent built in Mexico, begun in the 1530s on the southern slopes of Popocatépetl, and the church of Santiago Apóstol with its cloister belongs to the same World Heritage group of early convents around the volcano as Cuernavaca's cathedral. Its cloister keeps a rare carved stone fountain, and the convent's thick walls and simple lines show the early, almost defensive style of the first missions.
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Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t is where the day begins. Next is Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the S.
Popocatépetl is one of the highest volcanoes in North America, at about 5,400 metres, and it still smokes. From Mexico City on a clear winter day you can see the plume, and on the south side, in the state of Morelos, the foothills are dotted with the monasteries that the first Spanish friars built in the sixteenth century. They arrived in waves, Franciscans in 1524, Dominicans in 1526 and Augustinians in 1533, and in a few decades they converted and taught the people of the valleys, building fortress-like convents with open-air chapels, huge atria for crowds, and cloisters decorated with painted scenes. Eleven of them became a World Heritage group in 1994.
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Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the S comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 56 km into the recorded legs you reach Ancient Convent of the Nativity. Next is back through Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the S.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the S, late in the day. Next is Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t. That is the ride.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t → Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the S is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the S → Ancient Convent of the Nativity is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ancient Convent of the Nativity → back through Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the S is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the S → Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.