Why this ride
A shore-hugging corridor with open water, cliffs, bays or maritime landscapes. It links naturally to Strait of Magellan.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Punta Arenas to San Gregorio
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 166 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
Nov-Mar
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Punta Arenas
Punta Arenas is the southernmost city of any size on the continent, with about 117,000 people on the western shore of the Strait of Magellan, and it has the feel of a place that grew rich a long time ago and has been quietly proud ever since. It was founded in 1848 as a penal and military outpost, then boomed at the end of the nineteenth century when sheep farming, wool exports and the traffic of ships rounding the Horn made fortunes. The mansions of the wool barons still stand around the main square, some now museums, and the cemetery, with its clipped cypress avenues and monuments to immigrants from across Europe, is one of the most beautiful in South America.
Read the complete Punta Arenas write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Punta Arenas sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is San Gregorio Chile.
2. San Gregorio Chile
San Gregorio sits on Ruta 255 in the Chilean part of Patagonia, along the northern shore of the Strait of Magellan, where the road to the border at Monte Aymond runs across a landscape of immense, empty steppe. It is a place defined by sheep. The area was one of the great wool estates of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with an estancia that employed hundreds of shepherds and shearers and shipped its wool from a small port on the strait. The shearing sheds, workers' quarters and rusting machinery that remain are a quiet monument to that era and to the immigrants, from Britain, Croatia and elsewhere, who made it work.
Read the complete San Gregorio Chile write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
San Gregorio Chile comes up 166 km in.