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Arcabuco Pass

Category 2

14.5 km

Distance

610 m

Elevation Gain

4.2%

Average Gradient

8%

Max Gradient

2759 m

Summit Elevation

The Arcabuco Pass climb from Villa de Leyva is the definitive day ride out of Boyacá's finest cycling base — a 14.5km Category 2 ascent from the colonial town's dry valley floor (2,149m) to the Arcabuco plateau (2,759m) that delivers one of the most dramatic landscape transitions in Colombian cyclin...

Pro Tip

Combine the Arcabuco ascent with a morning visit to the Villa de Leyva fossil museum (Museo El Fósil, 6km north of the town on the Arcabuco road) — the museum houses the almost complete skeleton of a...

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