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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From Noria de Ángeles it runs 313 km to Noria de Ángeles; allow about 5 h 57 of riding. It goes by way of Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, Cupuri Mutiu and back through Camino Real de Tierra Adentro. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The high plateau of central Mexico, known as the Mesa Central, is a landscape of dry grass, mesquite, nopal cactus and low volcanic hills, and the village of Noria de Angeles, in the state of Zacatecas, sits in the middle of it, about eight kilometres from Villa Gonzalez Ortega.
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Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of is where the day begins. Next is Camino Real de Tierra Adentro.
South of Zacatecas, on the high plateau of northern Mexico, the old Camino Real de Tierra Adentro passes through a landscape of dry hills, maize fields and mesquite. This was the royal road of the interior, the great artery that ran from Mexico City for more than two and a half thousand kilometres north to Santa Fe, in what is now New Mexico, and it was the backbone of Spanish colonial expansion. Wagons and mule trains carried the silver from the mines of Zacatecas and Guanajuato south to the capital and the coast, while settlers, soldiers, priests and goods made their way north. Along the route, haciendas, chapels, bridges and towns grew up, and today sixty sites, including the historic centre of Zacatecas, form a World Heritage route.
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Camino Real de Tierra Adentro comes up about 71 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cupuri Mutiu.
Jerez de García Salinas is the reason most riders end up here, and it is a happy accident if they do. This colonial town in the west of Zacatecas state, a couple of kilometres from the point, is a Pueblo Mágico with a leafy plaza, an ornate little theatre, the Teatro Hinojosa, said to be modelled on Ford's Theatre in Washington, and the childhood home of Ramón López Velarde, the poet whose verses about provincial Mexico every schoolchild there knows. Jerez is a ranchero town at heart, with saddle makers, boot shops and men in hats, and the Easter fair with its horses and music draws people from across the region.
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about 157 km into the recorded legs you reach Cupuri Mutiu. Next is back through Camino Real de Tierra Adentro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Camino Real de Tierra Adentro write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, late in the day. Next is Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of. That is the ride.
Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of → Camino Real de Tierra Adentro is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Camino Real de Tierra Adentro → Cupuri Mutiu is 86 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cupuri Mutiu → back through Camino Real de Tierra Adentro is 86 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Camino Real de Tierra Adentro → Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles of is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.