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: 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.
On the way it passes Cuhixu Uheni, Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali and back through Cuhixu Uheni. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
In the high desert of northern San Luis Potosí, among creosote bush, yucca and endless sky, lies a landscape that is sacred to the Wixárika, the people outsiders often call the Huichol. Every year, pilgrims walk or travel hundreds of kilometres from their homes in the Sierra Madre Occidental of Jalisco and Nayarit to Wirikuta, the place where, in their cosmology, the sun was born. Along the way they stop at a sequence of sacred sites, springs, rocks and hills, each with its own name, offerings and rituals. Uxa Tequipa is one of these places, and the route as a whole has been proposed for the UNESCO list as Huiricuta, the Wixárika sacred route.
Read the complete Uxa Tequipa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Uxa Tequipa is where the day begins. Next is Cuhixu Uheni.
Every year, groups of Wixárika pilgrims, the people known to outsiders as the Huichol, walk hundreds of kilometres from their homeland in the mountains of Jalisco and Nayarit to Wirikuta, a sacred desert in San Luis Potosí. The route crosses a chain of sacred places, springs, hills and rocks, where offerings are left and ceremonies performed, and Cuhixu Uheni, near the small town of Villa de Ramos, is one of them. The pilgrimage route as a whole has been put forward for World Heritage status as a living cultural landscape.
Read the complete Cuhixu Uheni write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cuhixu Uheni comes up about 70 km into the recorded legs. Next is Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali.
The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Road of the Interior, ran for more than two and a half thousand kilometres from Mexico City to Santa Fe in what is now New Mexico, and carried silver, mercury, supplies and missionaries for nearly three hundred years. UNESCO inscribed a series of its sections and sites in 2010, and the stretch near Ojocaliente, in the state of Zacatecas, passes through high, dry country at around two thousand metres, with the town of Trancoso eight kilometres away and the city of Zacatecas to the west.
Read the complete Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 144 km into the recorded legs you reach Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali. Next is back through Cuhixu Uheni.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cuhixu Uheni write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cuhixu Uheni, late in the day. Next is Uxa Tequipa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Uxa Tequipa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Uxa Tequipa. That is the ride.
Uxa Tequipa → Cuhixu Uheni is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cuhixu Uheni → Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Stretch of the Camino Real between Ojocali → back through Cuhixu Uheni is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Cuhixu Uheni → Uxa Tequipa is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.