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 Indé it runs 353 km to Indé; allow about 6 h 50 of riding. On the way it passes Chapel of San Mateo of the Former hacienda, Town of San Pedro del Gallo and back through Chapel of San Mateo of the Former hacienda. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
In the high desert of northern Durango, between mountain ranges and dry basins, the town of Inde lies along the old silver road that ran from Mexico City to Santa Fe in New Mexico. The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Road of the Interior Land, was in use from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth, carrying silver, mercury, supplies, settlers and missionaries over 2,500 kilometres, and the Mexican sections were inscribed on the World Heritage list in 2010. Inde was a stopping point on that road, with a church, a plaza and the haciendas that supplied the mining camps.
Read the complete Town of Indé write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Town of Indé is where the day begins. Next is Chapel of San Mateo of the Former hacienda.
Indé is a small town in northern Durango, and the chapel of San Mateo belonged to a hacienda that supplied the silver road. The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro ran for about 2,600 kilometres from Mexico City to Santa Fe, and this stretch crossed some of the driest country on the way. Around here the landscape is bajada and basin, with mesquite, huisache and prickly pear on the plains and dark mountain ranges in the distance. Rainfall is low, and the wells and springs that haciendas depended on decided where people could live.
Read the complete Chapel of San Mateo of the Former hacienda write-up.
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Chapel of San Mateo of the Former hacienda comes up about 92 km into the recorded legs. Next is Town of San Pedro del Gallo.
San Pedro del Gallo is a very small town in a very big landscape, and that is precisely its appeal. Fewer than a thousand people live here, in the high desert of northern Durango, among dry plains, low mountains and endless sky, and the town grew up as a stop on the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the royal road that linked Mexico City with the northern frontier and Santa Fe. San Pedro del Gallo is one of the places included in the UNESCO listing of the Camino Real, with its church, simple adobe houses and the quiet atmosphere of a place where time moves slowly.
Read the complete Town of San Pedro del Gallo write-up.
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about 176 km into the recorded legs you reach Town of San Pedro del Gallo. Next is back through Chapel of San Mateo of the Former hacienda.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chapel of San Mateo of the Former hacienda write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Chapel of San Mateo of the Former hacienda, late in the day. Next is Town of Indé.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Town of Indé write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Town of Indé. That is the ride.
Town of Indé → Chapel of San Mateo of the Former hacienda is 92 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Chapel of San Mateo of the Former hacienda → Town of San Pedro del Gallo is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Town of San Pedro del Gallo → back through Chapel of San Mateo of the Former hacienda is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Chapel of San Mateo of the Former hacienda → Town of Indé is 92 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.