Why this ride
A named mountain-road corridor with sustained elevation change and pass scenery. It links naturally to Nazca Lines and Andean ascent.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Nazca to Puquio Andes Climb
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 156 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
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. Nazca
Nazca sits in the middle of one of the driest places on earth, a small desert town of about twenty-four thousand people on the Pan-American Highway, famous for lines drawn in the ground that nobody quite agrees on. The Nazca Lines, a collection of enormous figures and straight lines scratched into the stony plain, were made between about two thousand and fifteen hundred years ago by removing dark surface pebbles to expose the pale ground beneath. Birds, a monkey, a spider, a hummingbird: they were drawn on a scale that can only be appreciated from the air, and in 1994 they were listed as a World Heritage site.
Read the complete Nazca write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Nazca sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Puquio.
2. Puquio
Puquio is a small highland town at around 3,200 metres in the Lucanas province, high above the coastal desert, and it stands at the end of one of the most dramatic climbs in Peru. The road from Nazca begins almost at sea level in a hot, dry desert and rises in the space of a few hours to the cold, windy plateau of the Andes, with vast, empty slopes, deep gorges and sudden changes of temperature. Puquio is where the climb pauses, a town of about ten thousand people with a big plaza, a market and a church, set in a bowl of hills.
Read the complete Puquio write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Puquio comes up 156 km in.