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 372 km round trip from Caspe - roughly 6 h 28 in the saddle. The stops in between: Els Secans, Abric del mas de Barberà, Los Estrechos I and Hocino de Chornas. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Ebro river cuts through Aragon in a wide, dry valley, and where it meets its tributaries the Segre and Cinca around Mequinenza it was dammed in the twentieth century to make long, narrow lakes among bare hills. Val de Mamet is a dry side valley in this country, with a shelter that holds prehistoric paintings. The surroundings are arid and open, with low limestone cliffs, thyme and rosemary scrub, and scattered pines and almonds, and the silence is broken mostly by the wind and the occasional hawk.
Read the complete Val de mamet I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Val de mamet I is where the day begins. Next is Els Secans.
The lower Matarraña, in the far east of Aragón, is a drier, emptier country than the green upper valley. Here, the river flows through low hills of sandstone and limestone, with olive groves, almond trees and cereal fields, and the villages stand on hilltops, built of golden stone. Mazaleón is one of them, a small village above the river, with Maella and Calaceite nearby. Els Secans, a name meaning the dry lands, is a shelter with prehistoric paintings in the hills just outside the village.
Read the complete Els Secans write-up.
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Els Secans comes up about 37 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric del mas de Barberà.
Alcañiz is the capital of the Bajo Aragón, a region of olive groves, cereal fields and dry hills crossed by the Guadalope river in the south-east of Aragón. The town is crowned by a castle built for the Order of Calatrava, now a parador, and its main square, with a Gothic loggia and the town hall, is one of the finest in the region. The shelter of the Mas de Barberà lies in the hills just outside town, toward Castelserás and Calanda.
Read the complete Abric del mas de Barberà write-up.
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about 82 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric del mas de Barberà. Next is Los Estrechos I.
Los Estrechos means the narrows, and the name fits the country around Albalate del Arzobispo, in the Bajo Aragón, where the Martín river squeezes through limestone gorges on its way to the Ebro. The landscape is dry and open, a mixture of olive groves, almond terraces and low scrub, with sudden canyons and cliffs. The Martín valley is protected as a cultural park, because it holds a remarkable series of rock shelters with Levantine and Schematic paintings, some of which belong to the Mediterranean-arc group that UNESCO listed in 1998.
Read the complete Los Estrechos I write-up.
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Los Estrechos I, about halfway. Next is Hocino de Chornas.
The Martín river cuts a deep, winding gorge through the limestone hills of Teruel, and its walls are full of shelters where prehistoric people painted animals, hunters and abstract symbols. The Hocino de Chornas, near Estercuel and Montalbán, is one of these sites, a narrow gorge with rock art on its walls, part of the Río Martín Cultural Park, which protects dozens of painted shelters along the river between Montalbán, Obón, Alacón and Ariño. The sites are part of the Mediterranean rock art group listed by UNESCO, and the cultural park has interpretation centres and guided visits that make the art more accessible than at many other sites.
Read the complete Hocino de Chornas write-up.
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Hocino de Chornas sits at 149 km, about halfway. Next is back through Los Estrechos I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Los Estrechos I write-up.
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back through Los Estrechos I comes up about 239 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abric del mas de Barberà.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del mas de Barberà write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 290 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Abric del mas de Barberà. Next is back through Els Secans.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Els Secans write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Els Secans, late in the day. Next is Val de mamet I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Val de mamet I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 372 km.
Val de mamet I → Els Secans is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Els Secans → Abric del mas de Barberà is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del mas de Barberà → Los Estrechos I is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Los Estrechos I → Hocino de Chornas is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hocino de Chornas → back through Los Estrechos I is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Los Estrechos I → back through Abric del mas de Barberà is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del mas de Barberà → back through Els Secans is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Els Secans → Val de mamet I is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.