Why this ride
A named mountain-road corridor with sustained elevation change and pass scenery. It links naturally to Quebrada de Humahuaca.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Quebrada de Humahuaca Road
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 69 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 01
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Editorial context
Coordinates are curated start-via-end route seeds. They are not a surveyed centreline or navigation geometry. Run road snapping, topology checks, access checks and a live-status review before publication.
Access context
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Seasonal context
Apr-Nov
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Purmamarca
Purmamarca is the village most people photograph first in the Quebrada de Humahuaca, and the reason is the hill behind it. The Cerro de los Siete Colores rises straight from the edge of the settlement in bands of pink, rust, ochre, green and grey, and the colours change hourly: pale and chalky at noon, deep and almost wet-looking when the low sun rakes across them in the late afternoon. It is a small adobe village, about two thousand three hundred metres up in Jujuy province, in the far north-west of Argentina.
Read the complete Purmamarca write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Purmamarca sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Humahuaca.
2. Humahuaca
Humahuaca sits at almost three thousand metres in the Quebrada de Humahuaca, a long, dry, colourful valley in the far north of Argentina that UNESCO has listed as a World Heritage landscape. The valley runs for about a hundred and fifty kilometres, with the river Grande flowing between walls of red, ochre, green and violet rock, and cardón cacti standing like candelabra on the hillsides. The road through it, the Ruta 9, follows an ancient trade route used by the Incas, and before them by many peoples who carried llama caravans between the Andes and the lowlands.
Read the complete Humahuaca write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Humahuaca comes up 69 km in.