Why this ride
A named mountain-road corridor with sustained elevation change and pass scenery. It links naturally to Chapada Diamantina National Park.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Lençóis to Mucuge
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 114 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 08
- 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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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
May-Sep
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Lençóis
Lençóis is the town that the diamond rush built, and it still looks like it. In the 1840s prospectors poured into this corner of Bahia, and the name is said to come from the white tents they pitched along the river, which from the hills looked like sheets laid out to dry. The stone houses along the cobbled lanes are a leftover from that money, painted in faded colours, with a river running clear and tea-brown just below the square, stained by the plants upstream rather than by anything dirty.
Read the complete Lencois write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Lençóis sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Mucuge.
2. Mucugê
Mucugê has a cemetery that nobody expects. Walk up from the main street and you find the so-called Byzantine cemetery, a field of small white chapel-shaped tombs on a dusty hillside, a legacy of the diamond miners who made this town rich in the nineteenth century and then left it half-empty when the stones ran out. It is a quiet, slightly eerie place at the end of a long day on the road.
Read the complete Mucuge write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mucugê comes up 114 km in.