CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 441 km round trip from Villa González Ortega - roughly 10 h 02 in the saddle. It goes by way of Huahuatsari, Nihuetaritsié, Cuhixu Uheni and Natsitacua. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Villa González Ortega is a small town on the high plateau of Zacatecas, in north central Mexico, and its church of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores is one of the sites recognised as part of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Inland Road. This was the great trade route that linked Mexico City with the silver mines of the north and eventually with Santa Fe in New Mexico, a journey of more than two thousand kilometres across deserts, mountains and plains. For almost three centuries, wagons, mule trains, soldiers, priests and settlers travelled this road, and the towns, churches, haciendas and bridges along it tell the story of the Spanish colonisation of the north. UNESCO listed the route in 2010.
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Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in is where the day begins. Next is Huahuatsari.
Every year, Wixárika pilgrims, the people often called Huichol, walk or travel hundreds of kilometres from their homeland in the Sierra Madre Occidental to Wirikuta, a sacred desert in San Luis Potosí, where they gather peyote and make offerings at sacred places along the way. Huahuatsari is one of the sacred sites on this route, in the high desert near Villa de Ramos. The pilgrimage route has been placed on Mexico's tentative list for World Heritage, and the sites along it are places of prayer, not tourist attractions.
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Huahuatsari comes up 43 km in. Next is Nihuetaritsié.
High desert stretches away in every direction here, dotted with yucca, nopal cactus and mesquite, under a sky that seems twice as big as anywhere else. For centuries the Wixárika have made pilgrimages from their homeland in the Sierra Madre Occidental across these plains to Wirikuta, the sacred desert near Real de Catorce, stopping at springs, hills and other holy places along the way. This is one of those places, a spot that matters in their ritual geography even if, to an outsider, it looks like empty desert.
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86 km in you reach Nihuetaritsié. Next is Cuhixu Uheni.
Every year, groups of Wixárika pilgrims, the people known to outsiders as the Huichol, walk hundreds of kilometres from their homeland in the mountains of Jalisco and Nayarit to Wirikuta, a sacred desert in San Luis Potosí. The route crosses a chain of sacred places, springs, hills and rocks, where offerings are left and ceremonies performed, and Cuhixu Uheni, near the small town of Villa de Ramos, is one of them. The pilgrimage route as a whole has been put forward for World Heritage status as a living cultural landscape.
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Cuhixu Uheni, about halfway. Next is Natsitacua.
Every year, groups of Wixárika people, known in Spanish as Huichols, leave their homes in the Sierra Madre Occidental and walk, ride or drive hundreds of kilometres east to Wirikuta, the sacred desert in San Luis Potosí where, in their tradition, the sun was born. Along the way they stop at a series of sacred places, springs, hills and water holes, where they leave offerings and perform ceremonies. Natsitacua is one of these places, out on the high plains near the border of Zacatecas and San Luis Potosí, and the names of the neighbouring stops on the route, such as Nihuetaritsié, are in the Wixárika language.
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Natsitacua sits at 173 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cuhixu Uheni.
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back through Cuhixu Uheni comes up 216 km in. Next is back through Nihuetaritsié.
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259 km in you reach back through Nihuetaritsié. Next is back through Huahuatsari.
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back through Huahuatsari, late in the day. Next is Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in.
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The route ends here after 441 km.
Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in → Huahuatsari is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Huahuatsari → Nihuetaritsié is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nihuetaritsié → Cuhixu Uheni is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cuhixu Uheni → Natsitacua is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Natsitacua → back through Cuhixu Uheni is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cuhixu Uheni → back through Nihuetaritsié is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Nihuetaritsié → back through Huahuatsari is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Huahuatsari → Temple of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.