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 378 km round trip from Nonaspe - roughly 6 h 33 in the saddle. On the way it passes 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.
Where the Ebro, the Segre and the Cinca meet in eastern Aragon, a vast reservoir stretches for dozens of kilometres between bare, ochre hills. The locals call it the Mar de Aragón, the Sea of Aragon, and it was created in the 1960s when the Mequinenza dam flooded the valley. The old town of Mequinenza went under the water too, and its people were moved to a new town built above, a story told in moving detail in the local museums and in the novels of Jesús Moncada, who grew up there.
Read the complete Valmayor IV write-up.
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Valmayor IV 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 40 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 85 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 148 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 242 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 293 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.
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back through Els Secans, late in the day. Next is Valmayor IV.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Valmayor IV write-up.
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The route ends here after 378 km.
Valmayor IV → Els Secans is 40 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 → Valmayor IV is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.