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 Aculco de Espinoza it runs 287 km to Aculco de Espinoza; allow about 4 h 27 of riding. On the way it passes Stretch of the Camino Real between the bri, Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan and back through Stretch of the Camino Real between the bri. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,650 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Aculco is a quiet stone town in the northwest of the State of Mexico, on the high plateau at well over two thousand metres, where the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the colonial road to the north, passed through on its way from Mexico City. The town was a staging post, and its well-preserved centre, with a broad plaza, the Franciscan church and convent of San Jerónimo and old houses built of pinkish stone, is part of the UNESCO listing for the route. It was here, in November 1810, that royalist troops defeated Miguel Hidalgo's insurgent army, an early setback in the War of Independence that people still mention with a kind of local pride.
Read the complete Town of Aculco write-up.
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Town of Aculco is where the day begins. Next is Stretch of the Camino Real between the bri.
Aculco is a small town in the highlands of the State of Mexico, a place of cobbled streets, white walls with red trim and a church that stands over everything, and it has been a stop on the road north for as long as there has been a road. The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the old silver highway that connected Mexico City with the mines of Zacatecas and the far north, passed through this area, and a stretch of it near Aculco, with old paving and stonework, survives as part of the World Heritage listing. The Franciscans founded a convent in Aculco in the sixteenth century, and the town retains its colonial look, with arcades around the plaza and a quiet that comes from being a few hours from the capital and a world away.
Read the complete Stretch of the Camino Real between the bri write-up.
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Stretch of the Camino Real between the bri comes up about 55 km into the recorded legs. Next is Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan.
When the Aztecs came across Teotihuacan, centuries after it had been abandoned, they thought it must have been built by gods and named it the place where the gods were made. The city had reached its peak between about the first and sixth centuries, with perhaps well over a hundred thousand people, a grid of streets, apartment compounds and some of the largest pyramids in the Americas. The Pyramid of the Sun is a huge stepped mass, and the Pyramid of the Moon sits at the far end of the Avenue of the Dead, a long, broad processional road that makes the city feel grand even now.
Read the complete Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan write-up.
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about 143 km into the recorded legs you reach Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan. Next is back through Stretch of the Camino Real between the bri.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Stretch of the Camino Real between the bri write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Stretch of the Camino Real between the bri, late in the day. Next is Town of Aculco.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Town of Aculco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Town of Aculco. That is the ride.
Town of Aculco → Stretch of the Camino Real between the bri is 55 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Stretch of the Camino Real between the bri → Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan is 88 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan → back through Stretch of the Camino Real between the bri is 88 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Stretch of the Camino Real between the bri → Town of Aculco is 56 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.