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 291 km to San Andrés Mixquic; allow about 4 h 54 of riding. The stops in between: Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic, Historic Centre of Puebla and back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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 Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic.
Hueyapan sits high on the southern flank of Popocatépetl, in the far northeast of Morelos, where pine forest and orchards climb toward the volcano and the air is noticeably thinner than in the valleys below. In the sixteenth century, Dominican friars built a convent here dedicated to Santo Domingo, with a simple church, a cloister and a walled atrium where the indigenous population gathered for worship. It is one of the fourteen sites in the UNESCO listing of the Earliest Sixteenth-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatépetl, and while it is more modest than some of its neighbours, its setting is one of the most dramatic.
Read the complete Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic write-up.
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Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic comes up about 73 km into the recorded legs. Next is Historic Centre of Puebla.
Puebla was founded in 1531 as a Spanish city from the start, laid out on a grid between the volcanoes and the road from Veracruz to Mexico City, and it grew into one of the richest towns of New Spain. Its historic centre is a World Heritage site, and walking through it you see why: dozens of churches, palaces and mansions, many covered in the hand-painted Talavera tiles for which the city is still famous. The cathedral, with its two tall towers, dominates the main square, and a few blocks away the Rosary Chapel of the church of Santo Domingo is a dazzling space of gilded stucco and carved angels that has to be seen to be believed.
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about 146 km into the recorded legs you reach Historic Centre of Puebla. Next is back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic, late in the day. Next is Xochimilco 3.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Xochimilco 3 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Xochimilco 3. That is the ride.
Xochimilco 3 → Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic → Historic Centre of Puebla is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Historic Centre of Puebla → back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic → Xochimilco 3 is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.