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 San Andrés Mixquic it runs 143 km to San Andrés Mixquic; allow about 3 h 14 of riding. The stops in between: Xochimilco 2, Central University City Campus of the Univ, Historic centre of the city of México and back through Historic centre of the city of México. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
San Andrés Mixquic sits on the southeastern edge of Mexico City, in the borough of Tláhuac, and it feels like a village despite being part of one of the largest cities on earth. It is famous throughout Mexico for its Day of the Dead celebrations, when the cemetery around the church of San Andrés fills with marigolds, candles and families who keep vigil through the night of 2 November, and the whole town turns into a festival of altars, music and food. The rest of the year, Mixquic is a quiet place of canals, chinampas and vegetable fields.
Read the complete Xochimilco 3 write-up.
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Xochimilco 3 is where the day begins. Next is Xochimilco 2.
Before the Spanish arrived, the Valley of Mexico was a land of lakes, and the people who lived around them developed an ingenious way to farm the water. They built chinampas, artificial islands of mud and vegetation anchored by willow trees, separated by canals, and grew maize, beans, squash and flowers on them. In Xochimilco, in the south of Mexico City, a remnant of that world survives, with a network of canals and chinampas that is still farmed and navigated today. It is part of the UNESCO listing of the Historic Centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco, and the most famous image of the area is the trajinera, a brightly painted flat-bottomed boat that carries visitors along the canals, often accompanied by mariachi bands and floating food stalls.
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Xochimilco 2 comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is Central University City Campus of the Univ.
The main campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, known as Ciudad Universitaria, is one of the great architectural achievements of the twentieth century. Built between 1949 and 1952 on a field of lava from the ancient eruption of the Xitle volcano, in the south of Mexico City, it brought together dozens of architects, engineers and artists to create a modern campus that would blend international modernism with Mexican traditions. Its most famous building is the Central Library, a tall block covered entirely in a mosaic by Juan O'Gorman, depicting the history of Mexico from pre-Hispanic times to the modern era. UNESCO listed the campus in 2007.
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about 36 km into the recorded legs you reach Central University City Campus of the Univ. Next is Historic centre of the city of México.
Under the paving of the Zocalo there is a lake bed, and under that, the island city of Tenochtitlan. The Aztecs founded it in the fourteenth century on a swampy island in Lake Texcoco, linked it to the shore with causeways and filled the lake with floating gardens, and when Hernan Cortes arrived in 1519 he found a city larger and cleaner than any in Spain. After the conquest in 1521 the Spaniards drained the lake, built their cathedral on the ruins and began a new capital, and the result is the layered centre we see today. The Metropolitan Cathedral, a huge, ponderous baroque pile that took nearly three centuries to finish, leans noticeably, because the ground beneath it is soft clay, and engineers have spent decades trying to stop it sinking unevenly.
Read the complete Historic centre of the city of México write-up.
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Historic centre of the city of México, about halfway.
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Read the complete Central University City Campus of the Univ write-up.
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Central University City Campus of the Univ sits at 70 km, about halfway. Next is back through Historic centre of the city of México.
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back through Historic centre of the city of México comes up about 90 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Central University City Campus of the Univ.
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Read the complete Central University City Campus of the Univ write-up.
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about 106 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Central University City Campus of the Univ. Next is back through Xochimilco 2.
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Read the complete Xochimilco 2 write-up.
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back through Xochimilco 2, late in the day. Next is Xochimilco 3.
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The route ends here after 143 km.
Xochimilco 3 → Xochimilco 2 is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Xochimilco 2 → Central University City Campus of the Univ is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Central University City Campus of the Univ → Historic centre of the city of México is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic centre of the city of México → Central University City Campus of the Univ is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Central University City Campus of the Univ → back through Historic centre of the city of México is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Historic centre of the city of México → back through Central University City Campus of the Univ is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Central University City Campus of the Univ → back through Xochimilco 2 is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Xochimilco 2 → Xochimilco 3 is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.