CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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367 km from Susticacán to Susticacán, about 7 h 07 of riding. On the way it passes Cupuri Mutiu, Macuipa, Camino Real de Tierra Adentro and Former hacienda of Pabellón de Hidalgo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
In the high dry country of southern Zacatecas, the land is cut by canyons and spiny with mesquite, nopal cactus and agave, and the names of its places are a trail of Indigenous words. They sit in the region between the villages of Susticacán and Tepetongo, in the zone south-west of Zacatecas city where the highlands begin to drop towards the Juchipila valley, and the world around them is that of the Caxcan and Zacateco peoples who held the area before the Spanish arrived.
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Xurahue Muyaca is where the day begins. Next is Cupuri Mutiu.
Jerez de García Salinas is the reason most riders end up here, and it is a happy accident if they do. This colonial town in the west of Zacatecas state, a couple of kilometres from the point, is a Pueblo Mágico with a leafy plaza, an ornate little theatre, the Teatro Hinojosa, said to be modelled on Ford's Theatre in Washington, and the childhood home of Ramón López Velarde, the poet whose verses about provincial Mexico every schoolchild there knows. Jerez is a ranchero town at heart, with saddle makers, boot shops and men in hats, and the Easter fair with its horses and music draws people from across the region.
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Cupuri Mutiu comes up 50 km in. Next is Macuipa.
Macuipa lies on the edge of Zacatecas, the silver capital of northern Mexico, and the name points to the sacred geography of the Wixárika, the Huichol people, whose pilgrimage route passes through this region on its way from their homeland in the Sierra Madre Occidental to Wirikuta, the sacred desert in San Luis Potosí. For centuries, Wixárika pilgrims have walked this route, hundreds of kilometres long, visiting springs, hills and rocks where their deities dwell, leaving offerings and performing ceremonies. The route has recently been recognised by UNESCO. Exactly what is to be seen at Macuipa is not easy to say from a distance; treat it as a place where two very different worlds, the Spanish silver city and the indigenous sacred landscape, meet.
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100 km in you reach Macuipa. Next is Camino Real de Tierra Adentro.
South of Zacatecas, on the high plateau of northern Mexico, the old Camino Real de Tierra Adentro passes through a landscape of dry hills, maize fields and mesquite. This was the royal road of the interior, the great artery that ran from Mexico City for more than two and a half thousand kilometres north to Santa Fe, in what is now New Mexico, and it was the backbone of Spanish colonial expansion. Wagons and mule trains carried the silver from the mines of Zacatecas and Guanajuato south to the capital and the coast, while settlers, soldiers, priests and goods made their way north. Along the route, haciendas, chapels, bridges and towns grew up, and today sixty sites, including the historic centre of Zacatecas, form a World Heritage route.
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Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, about halfway. Next is Former hacienda of Pabellón de Hidalgo.
Pabellón de Hidalgo is a small town in the north of the state of Aguascalientes, and its old hacienda has a moment of national drama attached to it. In January 1811, after the insurgent army of Miguel Hidalgo was routed by royalist forces at the Battle of Puente de Calderón near Guadalajara, the retreating leaders met here, at the Hacienda de San Blas de Pabellón. Exhausted and defeated, they stripped Hidalgo of his military command and handed it to Ignacio Allende, who had long resented the priest's leadership. A few weeks later both were captured in the north, and by the summer both had been executed. The War of Independence would go on for another decade without them.
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Former hacienda of Pabellón de Hidalgo sits at 201 km, about halfway. Next is back through Camino Real de Tierra Adentro.
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back through Camino Real de Tierra Adentro comes up 251 km in. Next is back through Macuipa.
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301 km in you reach back through Macuipa. Next is back through Cupuri Mutiu.
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back through Cupuri Mutiu, late in the day. Next is Xurahue Muyaca.
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The route ends here after 367 km.
Xurahue Muyaca → Cupuri Mutiu is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cupuri Mutiu → Macuipa is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Macuipa → Camino Real de Tierra Adentro is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Camino Real de Tierra Adentro → Former hacienda of Pabellón de Hidalgo is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Former hacienda of Pabellón de Hidalgo → back through Camino Real de Tierra Adentro is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Camino Real de Tierra Adentro → back through Macuipa is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Macuipa → back through Cupuri Mutiu is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cupuri Mutiu → Xurahue Muyaca is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.