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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472 km from Mequinensa / Mequinenza to Mequinensa / Mequinenza, about 10 h 01 of riding. It goes by way of Abrigo del Plano del Pulido, Cueva de mas del Abogat, Abric de la Tenalla and Abric d'Esquarterades I. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Here the Ebro stops being a river and becomes a lake. Behind the great dams at Mequinenza and Riba-roja, the water backs up for kilometres into the dry hills of eastern Aragon, and locals call the reservoir the Mar de Aragón, the sea of Aragon. Val de Caballé is a gully in the hills south of the water, between Mequinenza, Nonaspe and Fabara, part of a scatter of prehistoric rock shelters in this corner where Aragon, Catalonia and the Matarranya meet.
Read the complete Val de Caballé I write-up.
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Val de Caballé I is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo del Plano del Pulido.
South of Caspe, the lower Aragón country is a dry, sculpted landscape of ochre hills, flat-topped mesas and gullies cut into soft sandstone, with almond and olive groves clinging to the valley floors. In these sandstone outcrops, prehistoric people found shelter and left paintings, and the Abrigo del Plano del Pulido is one of the rock shelters of the area included in the World Heritage site of the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. The painted figures, in the reddish tones of Levantine art, are small and faded, and as at most of these sites, access is controlled and visits may need to be arranged in advance.
Read the complete Abrigo del Plano del Pulido write-up.
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Abrigo del Plano del Pulido comes up about 42 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva de mas del Abogat.
Calaceite is the kind of village that makes you slow down without being asked: honey-coloured stone, arcaded squares, a big baroque church and grand old houses with carved doorways, all perched on a ridge in the Matarraña, the corner of Teruel where Aragón meets Catalonia and Valencia. A few kilometres from it lies the Cueva de Mas del Abogat, one of the painted rock shelters that belong to the UNESCO listing of prehistoric art in the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula. As with its sisters across eastern Spain, the paintings are small and often hard to read; the setting is what you take away.
Read the complete Cueva de mas del Abogat write-up.
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about 101 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva de mas del Abogat. Next is Abric de la Tenalla.
The Tinença de Benifassà is one of the wildest corners of the Valencian region, a cluster of tiny villages in the mountains where Valencia, Catalonia and Aragon meet, and the Abric de la Tenalla lies on its southeastern edge, near Rosell. It is one of the many rock shelters in this area with prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin, and the nearby Serra de Godall and the Ulldecona shelters to the east are among the most important sites in Catalonia. The landscape is dramatic: limestone cliffs, deep gorges, pine and holm oak forests, and abandoned terraces where shepherds once grazed their flocks.
Read the complete Abric de la Tenalla write-up.
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Abric de la Tenalla, about halfway. Next is Abric d'Esquarterades I.
In the dry hills behind Ulldecona, near the southern tip of Catalonia, small figures painted in red ochre run, hunt and gather across the walls of shallow rock shelters. These are the paintings of Levantine rock art, made by prehistoric people some seven to eight thousand years ago, and the shelters of the Serra de Godall, including the Abric d'Esquarterades, are among the best examples. They are part of the World Heritage site that covers rock art in the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula.
Read the complete Abric d'Esquarterades I write-up.
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Abric d'Esquarterades I sits at 147 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric de la Tenalla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de la Tenalla write-up.
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back through Abric de la Tenalla comes up about 279 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Cueva de mas del Abogat.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de mas del Abogat write-up.
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about 372 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Cueva de mas del Abogat. Next is back through Abrigo del Plano del Pulido.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Plano del Pulido write-up.
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back through Abrigo del Plano del Pulido, late in the day. Next is Val de Caballé I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Val de Caballé I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 472 km.
Val de Caballé I → Abrigo del Plano del Pulido is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Plano del Pulido → Cueva de mas del Abogat is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de mas del Abogat → Abric de la Tenalla is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la Tenalla → Abric d'Esquarterades I is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric d'Esquarterades I → back through Abric de la Tenalla is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de la Tenalla → back through Cueva de mas del Abogat is 93 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de mas del Abogat → back through Abrigo del Plano del Pulido is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del Plano del Pulido → Val de Caballé I is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.