Why this ride
A named mountain-road corridor with sustained elevation change and pass scenery. It links naturally to San Agustin Archaeological Park.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Popayan to San Agustin
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 133 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 11
- 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
Dec-Mar
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Popayan
Popayan is known as the White City, because the colonial buildings in its centre are whitewashed, with tiled roofs, arched cloisters, balconies and quiet courtyards, and it feels like a different century. About 258,000 people live here, at around 1,700 metres in the Cauca valley, and the city is one of the best-preserved colonial towns in Colombia. Cajibio is a small town nearby, and the road to the south climbs toward the high mountains of the south.
Read the complete Popayan write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Popayan sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is San Agustin Colombia.
2. San Agustin Colombia
In the southern highlands of Huila, near where the mighty Magdalena river begins as a thin stream, a lost culture left behind hundreds of stone statues. San Agustín lies in a landscape of green hills and deep canyons, and its Archaeological Park, listed by UNESCO, contains tombs and sculptures made between roughly the first and eighth centuries AD by people about whom very little is known. Fanged figures, warriors, animals and mysterious faces stand guard over burial mounds, and nobody can fully explain who they were.
Read the complete San Agustin Colombia write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
San Agustin Colombia comes up 133 km in.
Recorded source links
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