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 Trujillo it runs 463 km to Trujillo; allow about 9 h 33 of riding. It goes by way of Zone D, Zone F and back through Zone D. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 96 km this is Colombia Coffee Triangle Loop, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Valle del Cauca is one of the richest farmland regions of Colombia, a wide, flat valley between two great ranges of the Andes, and this point lies on its western edge, where the plain begins to climb into the mountains. The Cauca river runs through the middle, and on either side lie fields of sugar cane in a green sea that stretches for kilometres, harvested for most of the year, with columns of smoke and cane trucks on the roads. The Western Cordillera rises to the west, covered in cloud forest, and its slopes hold coffee farms, small villages and some of the best birdwatching in South America.
Read the complete Zone E write-up.
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Zone E is where the day begins. Next is Zone D.
Armenia, Colombia, is not the best-known part of the country, but the hills around it are the heart of the Eje Cafetero, the coffee axis. The Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia is a UNESCO World Heritage Site made up of several zones, and Zone D lies in Quindío, in the high green country close to Armenia, Circasia and Montenegro. This is where the coffee farms cling to steep slopes, shaded by plantain and tall guadua bamboo, and the farmhouses are painted in bright colours with carved balconies.
Read the complete Zone D write-up.
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Zone D comes up about 133 km into the recorded legs. Next is Zone F.
Zone F is one of the patches of the Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia, a World Heritage site spread across the steep green slopes of the Central and Western Cordilleras. This part lies in western Risaralda, around the towns of Santuario, Apía and La Celia, on hillsides so steep that you wonder how anyone stands upright to pick the beans. The answer is that people have been doing it for well over a century, by hand, on slopes where no machine could follow.
Read the complete Zone F write-up.
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about 229 km into the recorded legs you reach Zone F. Next is back through Zone D.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zone D write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Zone D, late in the day. Next is Zone E.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zone E write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Zone E. That is the ride.
Zone E → Zone D is 133 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Zone D → Zone F is 96 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Zone F → back through Zone D is 97 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Zone D → Zone E is 137 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.