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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418 km from San Andrés Cohamiata to San Andrés Cohamiata, about 10 h 17 of riding. It goes by way of Cuyetsarie, Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir and back through Cuyetsarie. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Tuapurie is the Wixarika name for Santa Catarina, one of the main communities of the Wixarika, whom outsiders know as Huichol, in the Sierra Madre Occidental of northern Jalisco. It is a high, remote, rugged landscape of pine and oak forest cut by deep barrancas, and it is one of the places where the Wixarika have kept their religion and customs alive more fully than most Indigenous peoples in Mexico. The community's centre includes a ceremonial building and a temple, and the seasons are marked by pilgrimages, in particular the long journey to Wirikuta in San Luis Potosi, where the sacred peyote grows. The route from here to the sacred sites is the subject of the ride, and it touches places that have deep meaning for the people who live here.
Read the complete Tuapurie write-up.
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Tuapurie is where the day begins. Next is Cuyetsarie.
This is a point on the high plateau where Zacatecas, Jalisco and Durango meet, in the dry country at the edge of the northern Sierra Madre Occidental. The names of the rides, Cuyetsarie, Cacai Mutijé and Xurahue Muyaca, belong to the Wixárika people, whom outsiders call the Huichol, and refer to places in their sacred geography. Wixárika communities live in the rugged canyons of Mezquitic and Huejuquilla and the neighbouring sierra, and they keep a living tradition in which certain springs, hills and rocks are sites of offering, prayer and pilgrimage.
Read the complete Cuyetsarie write-up.
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Cuyetsarie comes up about 113 km into the recorded legs. Next is Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir.
West of Jerez, in Zacatecas, the land starts to fold into the long ridges of the Sierra Madre Occidental, and somewhere in these hills runs the path that Wixárika pilgrims follow from their homeland in the mountains of Jalisco and Nayarit toward Wirikuta, their sacred desert far to the east. The route, listed by UNESCO in 2025, is not a road in the usual sense but a chain of sacred places, springs, hills and caves where the pilgrims stop to pray, leave offerings and remember the journey of their ancestors, who according to tradition walked this way at the beginning of the world.
Read the complete Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir write-up.
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about 209 km into the recorded legs you reach Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir. Next is back through Cuyetsarie.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cuyetsarie write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cuyetsarie, late in the day. Next is Tuapurie.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tuapurie write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Tuapurie. That is the ride.
Tuapurie → Cuyetsarie is 113 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cuyetsarie → Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir is 96 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wixárika Route through Sacred Sites to Wir → back through Cuyetsarie is 96 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cuyetsarie → Tuapurie is 113 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.