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Pico do Arieiro

North-eastern ascent from Faial

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Length: 23.0 km
Height gain: 1742 m
Average: 7.6%
Steepest km: 14.5%
Summit altitude: 1794 m
Difficulty: 558

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Machico 25.6 km, 7.0% average, 1788 m height gain
Faial 23.0 km, 7.6% average, 1742 m height gain
Funchal 18.3 km, 9.3% average, 1703 m height gain
Funchal 17.4 km, 10.3% average, 1790 m height gain

Elevation profile

52 m → 1794 m Touch or hover to inspect

0–4% 4–6% 6–8% 8–10% 10–14% 14%+

Steepest km: km 14 at 14.5%

2 short sections look like survey errors (hatched) — usually a tunnel or a bridge, measured from the terrain above or below the road. They are left out of the steepest-km figure.

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Climb analysis

Where the climbing is

0–4%: 6.3 km
4–6%: 1.3 km
6–8%: 2.3 km
8–10%: 5.0 km
10–14%: 5.5 km
14%+: 2.8 km

Hardest sustained

1 km · km 13.6–14.6: 16.6%
2 km · km 12.5–14.5: 14.4%
5 km · km 11.4–16.4: 11.4%

Time to the top

2h 21 at 3 W/kg · 70 kg rider + 8 kg bike, no wind

Kilometre by kilometre

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Km	Altitude	Gain	Gradient	Max
1	165 m	+112 m	11.2%	59%
2	230 m	+66 m	6.6%	16.4%
3	337 m	+107 m	10.7%	20%
4	409 m	+72 m	7.2% ? Includes a suspected survey error	69%
5	402 m	−6 m	−0.6% ? Includes a suspected survey error	43.4%
6	421 m	+19 m	1.9%	58.5%
7	526 m	+105 m	10.5% ? Includes a suspected survey error	94.8%
8	604 m	+78 m	7.8% ? Includes a suspected survey error	31.6%
9	707 m	+102 m	10.2%	17.2%
10	830 m	+124 m	12.4%	53%
11	841 m	+11 m	1.1%	36%
12	881 m	+40 m	4.0%	45.6%
13	1004 m	+123 m	12.3%	37.8%
14	1150 m	+146 m	14.5%	59%
15	1263 m	+113 m	11.3%	28%
16	1377 m	+114 m	11.4%	23.4%
17	1394 m	+17 m	1.7%	20.4%
18	1465 m	+72 m	7.2%	18.2%
19	1515 m	+49 m	4.9%	15%
20	1565 m	+50 m	5.0%	28.2%
21	1626 m	+61 m	6.1%	21.2%
22	1712 m	+86 m	8.6%	13.8%
23	1794 m	+82 m	8.4%	18.2%