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Chivay to Cabanaconde

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Recorded distance
54 km
Riding-time estimate
1 h 19
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.

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

  2. 2. Cabanaconde

    Cabanaconde sits right on the lip of the Colca Canyon, at a height of about 3,300 metres, and at the end of the road you simply look down into one of the deepest valleys on the planet. The canyon plunges more than three thousand metres in places, though people argue about the measurement, and the Colca River is a thin silver thread at the bottom. Terraces carved by pre-Inca peoples climb the walls in neat steps, and are still farmed with maize and potatoes, as they have been for centuries.

    Read the complete Cabanaconde write-up.

    Recorded stop-planning note

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

    Planning note

    Cabanaconde comes up 54 km in.

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