Why this ride
On the way it passes Natsitacua, Nihuetaritsié and back through Natsitacua. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Tuy Mayau and Nihuetaritsié
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 390 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 6 h 44
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Tuy Mayau
Out in the high desert of San Luis Potosí, near the town of Charcas, lies a landscape that for the Wixárika people, often called the Huichol, is the most sacred place on earth. Wirikuta is the land where, in their cosmology, the sun was born, and each year pilgrims walk or travel hundreds of kilometres from their homeland in the Sierra Madre Occidental of Jalisco and Nayarit to reach it, visiting a chain of sacred springs, hills and other sites along the way.
Read the complete Tuy Mayau write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Tuy Mayau is where the day begins. Next is Natsitacua.
2. 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.
Read the complete Natsitacua write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Natsitacua comes up about 111 km into the recorded legs. Next is Nihuetaritsié.
3. Nihuetaritsié
High desert stretches away in every direction here, dotted with yucca, nopal cactus and mesquite, under a sky that seems twice as big as anywhere else. For centuries the Wixárika have made pilgrimages from their homeland in the Sierra Madre Occidental across these plains to Wirikuta, the sacred desert near Real de Catorce, stopping at springs, hills and other holy places along the way. This is one of those places, a spot that matters in their ritual geography even if, to an outsider, it looks like empty desert.
Read the complete Nihuetaritsié write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 197 km into the recorded legs you reach Nihuetaritsié. Next is back through Natsitacua.
4. back through Natsitacua
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Natsitacua write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Natsitacua, late in the day. Next is Tuy Mayau.
5. Tuy Mayau
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tuy Mayau write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Tuy Mayau. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Tuy Mayau to Natsitacua
Tuy Mayau → Natsitacua is 111 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Natsitacua to Nihuetaritsié
Natsitacua → Nihuetaritsié is 86 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nihuetaritsié to back through Natsitacua
Nihuetaritsié → back through Natsitacua is 86 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Natsitacua to Tuy Mayau
back through Natsitacua → Tuy Mayau is 111 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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