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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543 km from Santa Cruz Cabrália to Santa Cruz Cabrália, about 12 h 50 of riding. It goes by way of PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station, Monte Pascoal National Park, Discovery National Park and back through Monte Pascoal National Park. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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.
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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.
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PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station comes up about 57 km into the recorded legs. Next is Monte Pascoal National Park.
On Easter Sunday 1500 the lookouts of Pedro Álvares Cabral's fleet saw a rounded mountain rising out of the Atlantic haze and called it Monte Pascoal, Easter Mountain. A few days later the Portuguese landed on the coast nearby, and the story of European Brazil began. The mountain still stands over the low forested coastline of southern Bahia, and the national park around it protects some of the last stretches of Atlantic forest in this region. It is part of the Atlantic forest reserves of the Costa do Descobrimento, listed by UNESCO in 1999.
Read the complete Monte Pascoal National Park write-up.
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about 214 km into the recorded legs you reach Monte Pascoal National Park. Next is Discovery National Park.
On the coast of southern Bahia, in the stretch of Bahia that Brazilians call the Costa do Descobrimento, a long beach of pale sand curves away beneath coconut palms and low cliffs, and inland the land rises to a green and misty ridge. It was along this shore, on 22 April 1500, that Pedro Álvares Cabral's fleet sighted the round hill of Monte Pascoal, named for Easter, and the first sight of land in what became Brazil. The Pataxó people who lived on this coast met the Portuguese on the beach, and their descendants still live in the area, with some villages open to visitors who wish to learn about their customs and crafts.
Read the complete Discovery National Park write-up.
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Discovery National Park, about halfway. Next is back through Monte Pascoal National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Monte Pascoal National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Monte Pascoal National Park sits at 187 km, about halfway. 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 comes up about 485 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Veracruz Station closes the day.
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 → Monte Pascoal National Park is 157 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Monte Pascoal National Park → Discovery National Park is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Discovery National Park → back through Monte Pascoal National Park is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Monte Pascoal National Park → back through PAU Brazil CEPLAC Experimental Station is 157 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
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.