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 Nerpio it runs 166 km to Nerpio; allow about 4 h 15 of riding. The stops in between: Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il, Las Covachicas and back through Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Nerpio is about as far from anywhere as you can get in mainland Spain. The village lies in the southwestern corner of Albacete province, close to the borders of Murcia, Granada and Jaén, in a high, wild landscape of limestone ridges, pine forest and deep river valleys. The area is known for two things: walnuts, which grow in huge old trees along the Taibilla river and are celebrated in local cooking, and one of the densest concentrations of prehistoric rock art in the Iberian Peninsula, part of the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. The generic label Zona 1 points at the hills near the village, where rock shelters with painted figures are scattered across the cliffs.
Read the complete Zona 1 write-up.
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Zona 1 is where the day begins. Next is Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il.
Water from these mountains ends up in the taps of Cartagena. The Taibilla river, which rises in the hills above Nerpio, feeds the canals of the Mancomunidad de los Canales del Taibilla, built in the twentieth century to supply towns across Murcia and beyond, and a name like the engineers' houses hints at how much that project marked the valley. Las Casas de los Ingenieros II is a rock shelter near Nerpio, one of the many painted sites in this remote corner of the Sierra de Segura.
Read the complete Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il write-up.
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Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Las Covachicas.
The Sierra del Segura, in the far south of Albacete province, is a world of its own: deep valleys, rivers lined with poplars, terraces of olive and almond trees, and white villages that look more Andalusian than Castilian. Letur is one of the most beautiful, a village of Moorish origin built on a rock above a stream, with narrow alleys, arches and gardens watered by old irrigation channels. Las Covachicas, a group of shelters, lies in the hills nearby, between Letur, Socovos and Férez.
Read the complete Las Covachicas write-up.
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about 82 km into the recorded legs you reach Las Covachicas. Next is back through Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il, late in the day. Next is Zona 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zona 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Zona 1. That is the ride.
Zona 1 → Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il → Las Covachicas is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Las Covachicas → back through Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Las Casas de las Ingenieros Il → Zona 1 is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.