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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274 km from Temoac to Temoac, about 4 h 28 of riding. It goes by way of Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the S, Ancient Convent of the Nativity, Archaeological Monuments Zone of Xochicalc and back through Ancient Convent of the Nativity. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,600 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Zacualpan de Amilpas is a small town on the lower slopes of Popocatépetl in the state of Morelos, and its centre is dominated by a sixteenth-century convent built by Augustinian friars in the first decades after the Spanish conquest. The church and former convent of the Immaculate Conception belong to the group of early monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl that UNESCO listed in 1994, a chain of fortified religious houses that served as the base for the evangelisation of central Mexico.
Read the complete Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat write-up.
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Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat 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.
Read the complete Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the S write-up.
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Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the S comes up about 39 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 74 km into the recorded legs you reach Ancient Convent of the Nativity. Next is Archaeological Monuments Zone of Xochicalc.
Xochicalco sits on a terraced hilltop south-west of Cuernavaca, and from the top you understand immediately why someone built a city here: the view runs over the valleys of Morelos in every direction, to the lakes, the hills and, on a clear day, the snowy shoulders of Popocatépetl far to the east. The city rose after the fall of Teotihuacan, flourishing roughly between AD 650 and 900, a time of upheaval when fortified hilltop centres grew strong by controlling trade. It was protected by moats, walls and ramparts, and its people mixed influences from the Maya, the Gulf Coast and central Mexico in a way that makes it unique.
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Archaeological Monuments Zone of Xochicalc, about halfway. Next is back through Ancient Convent of the Nativity.
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Read the complete Ancient Convent of the Nativity write-up.
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back through Ancient Convent of the Nativity sits at 131 km, about halfway. Next is back through Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the S.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the S write-up.
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back through Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the S comes up about 233 km into the recorded legs. Next is Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat closes the day.
Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat → Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the S is 39 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 → Archaeological Monuments Zone of Xochicalc is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Archaeological Monuments Zone of Xochicalc → back through Ancient Convent of the Nativity is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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 the Immaculat is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.