CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Villa González Ortega it runs 542 km to Villa González Ortega; allow about 13 h 20 of riding. It goes by way of Huahuatsari, Tatei Matiniere, Natsitacua and Uxa Tequipa. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 30 km in. Next is Tatei Matiniere.
Every year, Wixárika pilgrims walk or drive hundreds of kilometres from their homeland in the Sierra Madre Occidental to the desert of Wirikuta in San Luis Potosí, where they collect peyote, the sacred cactus they call hikuri, and perform ceremonies to renew the world. Along the way, they stop at sacred places, and Tatei Matinieri, a group of springs in the semi-desert of the Altiplano, is one of the most important. The Wixárika route through these sacred sites was listed by UNESCO in 2025, recognising a living tradition that goes back centuries.
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60 km in you reach Tatei Matiniere. 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, about halfway. Next is Uxa Tequipa.
In the high desert of northern San Luis Potosí, among creosote bush, yucca and endless sky, lies a landscape that is sacred to the Wixárika, the people outsiders often call the Huichol. Every year, pilgrims walk or travel hundreds of kilometres from their homes in the Sierra Madre Occidental of Jalisco and Nayarit to Wirikuta, the place where, in their cosmology, the sun was born. Along the way they stop at a sequence of sacred sites, springs, rocks and hills, each with its own name, offerings and rituals. Uxa Tequipa is one of these places, and the route as a whole has been proposed for the UNESCO list as Huiricuta, the Wixárika sacred route.
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Uxa Tequipa sits at 119 km, about halfway. Next is back through Natsitacua.
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back through Natsitacua comes up 149 km in. Next is back through Tatei Matiniere.
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179 km in you reach back through Tatei Matiniere. 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 542 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 → Tatei Matiniere is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tatei Matiniere → Natsitacua is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Natsitacua → Uxa Tequipa is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Uxa Tequipa → back through Natsitacua is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Natsitacua → back through Tatei Matiniere is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tatei Matiniere → back through Huahuatsari is 33 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.