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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A 423 km round trip from Valle de Allende - roughly 6 h 56 in the saddle. The stops in between: Temple of San Miguel of the town of Villa, Town of Indé and back through Temple of San Miguel of the town of Villa. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Valle de Allende is a quiet town in the high desert of southern Chihuahua, set in a broad valley at about 1,500 metres, with green orchards and fields along the river and bare brown hills beyond. The population is around four thousand, and the place feels more like a country crossroads than a tourist stop. It is a base for a ride that heads south into the mountains toward Indé, across a landscape that has been shaped by mining and ranching for four centuries.
Read the complete Town of Valle de Allende write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Town of Valle de Allende is where the day begins. Next is Temple of San Miguel of the town of Villa.
The little church of San Miguel is the quiet heart of Villa Ocampo, which sits in the dry north of Durango, close to where the state meets Chihuahua. The settlement belongs to the long chain of towns strung along the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the old road that carried silver south and supplies, settlers and missionaries north, and it still has the layout you would expect: a plaza, a church at its edge, low houses of adobe and brick, and a feeling that nobody is in a hurry.
Read the complete Temple of San Miguel of the town of Villa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Temple of San Miguel of the town of Villa comes up about 94 km into the recorded legs. Next is Town of Indé.
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.
about 211 km into the recorded legs you reach Town of Indé. Next is back through Temple of San Miguel of the town of Villa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Temple of San Miguel of the town of Villa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Temple of San Miguel of the town of Villa, late in the day. Next is Town of Valle de Allende.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Town of Valle de Allende write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Town of Valle de Allende. That is the ride.
Town of Valle de Allende → Temple of San Miguel of the town of Villa is 94 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Temple of San Miguel of the town of Villa → Town of Indé is 117 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Town of Indé → back through Temple of San Miguel of the town of Villa is 118 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Temple of San Miguel of the town of Villa → Town of Valle de Allende is 94 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.