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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From Santa Cruz Cabrália it runs 183 km to Santa Cruz Cabrália; allow about 4 h 37 of riding. It goes by way of PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station, Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves and back through PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station.
The ride follows Veracruz Station → PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station for 57 km.
On 22 April 1500, a Portuguese fleet under Pedro Alvares Cabral anchored off this coast of Bahia, and the history of Brazil as a European colony began. The fleet was bound for India, and was blown far to the west, and the first mass in Brazil was held on shore a few days later. The area around Porto Seguro and Santa Cruz Cabralia is still called the Costa do Descobrimento, and the stretch of Atlantic Forest behind it is a UNESCO World Heritage listing, the Atlantic Forest Reserves of that same coast, one of the last pieces of lowland coastal forest in the north-east of the country. Veracruz Station is one of its protected areas.
Read the complete Veracruz Station write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Veracruz Station is where the day begins. Next is PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station.
In April 1500, the Portuguese fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral, sailing for India, sighted land on this coast and anchored near what is now Porto Seguro, in southern Bahia, making the first recorded European landfall in Brazil. The country took its name from the pau-brasil, a tree whose red wood was valuable for making dye and was exported in huge quantities in the early colonial period, nearly wiping it out. The CEPLAC experimental station near Porto Seguro, an agricultural research facility, lies within the Atlantic Forest reserves of this coast, listed by UNESCO in 1999 together with other protected areas of the Costa do Descobrimento.
Read the complete PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station comes up about 57 km into the recorded legs. Next is Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves.
In April of 1500 the Portuguese fleet under Pedro Álvares Cabral sighted a mountain on the Bahia coast, called it Monte Pascoal because it was Easter, and went ashore nearby. That is the usual start of Brazil's written history, and the stretch of coast around Porto Seguro and Santa Cruz Cabrália has been called the Costa do Descobrimento, the Coast of Finding, ever since. The Atlantic Forest reserves behind the beaches protect what is left of one of the most diverse and most reduced forests on Earth. Only a small fraction of the original Mata Atlântica remains, and the patches in southern Bahia are especially rich in plants and animals found nowhere else.
Read the complete Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 90 km into the recorded legs you reach Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves. Next is back through PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station, late in the day. Next is Veracruz Station.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Veracruz Station write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Veracruz Station. That is the ride.
Veracruz Station → PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station → Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves → back through PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station → Veracruz Station is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.