Motorcycle Ride Planner · Ecuador

E494 — Manuel de Echeandía to Guaranda

Ecuador · measured from OpenStreetMap geometry

E494 runs 22.9 miles between Manuel de Echeandía and Guaranda. We counted 950 corners along it, which works out at 41.6 a mile — consistently twisty. It runs past a river, open water, mountain peaks and forest. That is busier than two thirds of the roads we have measured in Ecuador, where the median is 33.6 a mile.

Ridden together with E494 and E494 it makes about 18 more miles of the same kind of road.

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Worth stopping for

• 1.1 mihistoricTaita Carnaval
• 1.6 miattractionCabaña Cumanda
• 1.6 miviewpointEl Cortijo
• 1.9 mihistoricMonumento a la Paz
• 2.1 mihistoricIndio Guaranga
• 2.3 miattractionTrapiche
• 2.4 mihistoricMonumento a Simón Bolívar
• 2.5 miattraction*VENTA DE MIEL DE ABEJA 100%NATURAL *
• 2.5 miattractionVENTA DE MIEL DE ABEJA 100% PURA
• 2.9 mihistoricAvión

Roads near here

• E4941 mi away · 522 corners
• E4945 mi away · 278 corners
• Guachana - Charquiaco6 mi away · 392 corners
• Via a Pambabuela - Tres Marias6 mi away · 333 corners
• E4948 mi away · 117 corners
• E4948 mi away · 171 corners

How we measured it

Corner counts come from the road's own geometry in OpenStreetMap, not from ratings or votes. Every bend above a threshold of curvature is counted once, so two roads can be compared directly. Nothing here is crowdsourced and nobody paid to appear.