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Arequipa to Chivay

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Recorded distance
149 km
Riding-time estimate
3 h 11
Journey
Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis

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Why this ride

A named mountain-road corridor with sustained elevation change and pass scenery. It links naturally to Colca Canyon and Salinas y Aguada Blanca.

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-Oct

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

  1. 1. Arequipa

    Arequipa announces itself from a distance with a volcano. El Misti, a near-perfect cone of about 5,800 metres, stands behind the city, flanked by the broader mass of Chachani and the older, eroded Pichu Pichu, and on a clear morning the three seem to hang above the rooftops. Arequipa is Peru's second city, home to well over eight hundred thousand people, sitting in a dry valley at roughly 2,300 metres, so you arrive here after a long climb from the coast with your lungs and your engine both a little short of breath.

    Read the complete Arequipa write-up.

    Recorded stop-planning note

    May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

    Planning note

    Arequipa sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Chivay.

  2. 2. Chivay

    You will feel Chivay before you see it, in the lungs. The town stands at about 3,600 metres in the Colca Valley, and anyone who rode up from Arequipa at near sea level on the same day tends to arrive a little dizzy, thick-headed and surprisingly hungry. The road does it to you in stages: out of the desert suburbs, up past the cones of Misti and Chachani, across a bleak plateau of alpaca pasture and vicuña at something close to 4,900 metres, and then down again into a green valley that looks like another country entirely.

    Read the complete Chivay write-up.

    Recorded stop-planning note

    May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

    Planning note

    Chivay comes up 149 km in.

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