EXPEDICIÓN GUARANÍ 2018
In Expedición Guaraní the participants will travel 450 km through the most beautiful sites of the country; al though Paraguay has no high mountains, you will reach the ones of the highest peaks of the country, you will have to pedal several miles of sand and mud roads, rappelling in beautiful waterfalls,all in an environment full of lush vegetation, the last remnant of the Atlantic Forest, which was the second largest rainforest in South America, it extends from Brazil (Pantanal area) through Paraguay, reaching Argentina.
Mixed teams of 4 members can aspire to reach the awards of the Expedition Category, and for slower or novice will have a cut with the intention that all teams can reach the finish line. But we enable an Adventure Category, with a distance of 200 km, for mixed teams of 4 members who want to experience for the first time the excitement of an expedition race with the best riders in the world.
Although the country does not have very actuals maps, we promise to fix them and add all the information needed to be able to trust them.
Paraguay is country with very friendly people, which is the reason why the excellent service to the runners will become the trademark of Expedición Guaraní.
RACE FORMAT
Expedición Guaraní is a race created by and for adventure racers. Therefore, our main objective is to design a technical and demanding course for the top teams, but also dynamic and affordable for slower teams, without forgetting to offer fun stages with attractive landscapes. The route will be full of contrasts, as it will pass through varied terrain such as mountain areas, atlantic forest, serpentine rivers...
All control points (CPs) and all transition areas (TAs) are mandatory. Moving to another activity or checking in (take the photographs) another section’s CP without previously having passed through the corresponding TA is not allowed.
There will be several cut offs along the course (defined in the RaceBook). Our aim is that as many teams as possible are able to reach the goal and therefore we have enabled these cut off zones, in order to allow the lagging teams to cut part of the course and reach the finish line and not miss the final party.
To complete the full course all TAs have to be visited and all CPs have to be validated along the course and up to the finish line. The TAs’ visits and CPs’ checks have to be validated by the corresponding system.
If a team skip a CP, either on its own decision or due to a cut off, it will still be competing, however, it will be ranked behind the teams that have managed to arrive longer in the race. For ranking purposes among these teams, it will be taken into account the number of CPs or TAs that the teams have reached without interruption.
Teams that do not reach the finish line at the established time will stop racing at the exact place where they are at that moment. These teams will have to return on their own or with the aid of the organization if necessary. Their relative position to other teams will be decided by the number of check points achieved or by analyzing the track if necessary.
The winning time is calculated to 80h and maximum race time will be124h. The race will start on Sunday night and teams will have until Friday night to reach the finish line. There won´t be mandatory stop during the race, so teams will manage their own rest. Maps will be delivered minutes before the race starts, once the teams are free from mobile devices.
SCHEDULE
Friday 6 Teams arrive | Accommodation in charge of the organization in Asunción
Saturday 7
Morning Transfer to the competition center in Itapúa
Afternoon Registration I Team photos I Equipment checking | Equipment and food preparation
Sunday 8
Morning Registration I Team photos I Equipment checking | Equipment and food preparation
Afternoon Equipment drop off
Nigth Entrega de mapas | Inicio de la carrera
Monday 9 Carrera en curso
Friday 13 Race finishes
Saturday 14 Prize giving
Sunday 15
Morning Return to Asunción (Arrival to ASU at 14:00)
Afternoon Teams Depart (Book your flights for the evening if you want to return to Asunción in the bus of the organization)
DISCIPLINES
Expedición Guaraní is an adventure race in which are combined several disciplines. Mountain biking, trekking, kayaking and orienteering will be the principals and the teams will have to demonstrate their skills in all of them..
Orienteering
The orienteering can be considered the main discipline of the race, since in all sections teams will advance with the help of a single map and compass. Have at least a good navigator on the team may be the key in getting a good final result.
In the race you will use topographic updated maps, in scale 1: 50,000, although in some others sections or parts of the race other maps and / or scales may also be used.
Trekking
The trekking sections will be the most challenging parts of the race. Teams will have to walk in paths, crossing or going through rivers, climbing waterfalls and even making its own way through the middle of the forest.
Mountain Bike
Racers met several sections of mountain biking. It will be shot in all types of terrain and navigation will also be decisive in this discipline.
Teams must take some spare material and must be able to use it appropriately in case of failure.
Kayak
There will be some kayak sections. Some of them in rivers with easy rapids.
Ropes
Throughout the race there will be descending (abseiling) or ascending points with ropes.
LOCATION
Itapúa is a department in the southern region of Paraguay. The capital is the city of Encarnación. It is divided into 30 districts, making it the department with the most districts in the country.
This department was created after the breakup of the Misiones Department, with the city of Encarnación as the capital. It had a high economic growth in the first 30 years by the coming of immigrants and the Carlos Antonio Lopez Railway, the growth was accompanied with several ups and downs.
Then came an era of decline until the 50s when the Carnaval Encarnaceno became known and attracted tourists from various regions. In the 80s the department became more industrial, but modestly, compared with other departments like Central Department.
In 1989 the Yacyretá Dam displaced the people living in the Yacyretá Reservoir, which still continues. The San Roque González de Santa Cruz Bridge was inaugurated in 1991, connecting not only the city of Encarnación and Posadas, but Paraguay with Argentina.
CATEGORIES
In Expedición Guaraní we will have 3 categories, in order to offer this magnificent adventure to the maximum possible number of racers.
Expedition
Is the official category of the race. In it, mixed teams of four athletes (at least there should be a boy and a girl on each team) will be participating. This is the traditional format in the adventure racing around the world.
In this category you will not need to have own care, as is the organization that is responsible for transporting the material transition in transition.
Adventure 4
This category will have part of the route of the expedition race, but with a more affordable format, designed for teams that have less experience or less physical capacity. In this category will also participate mixed teams formed by four athletes.
In this category you will not need to have own care, as is the organization that is responsible for transporting the material transition in transition.
Adventure 2
This category will have the same route like Aventura 4, but with 2 people teams.
Teams can be mixed.
AWARDS
There will be prize money, also a free entrance to the World Championship 2018 for the first place and a free entrance to Basque Expedition Race 2018 for the second place.
The first National team will receive US$ 500 in prize money.
The first three places in the Adventure category will receive sponsors products
TEAMS
Expedición
SACI AKSA
Mauricio Morceli | Danielle Nagaoka | Filipe Neves | Jose Fernando Paivade
BOSI ADVENTURE
Gabriel Castaño | Eliana Chica | Richar Díaz | John Cadena
ULALA
Elio Saurini | Pablo Aguerre | Alice Meza | Ruben Etienne
ECODOV PEDALEROSPY
Félix Carvallo | Liz Prieto | Diego Figueira | Diego Bittar
SKYRUNNERS
ADVENTURE
Germán Gónzalez| Natalia Villalba | Andres Cubides | Edinson Casallas
SAFERBO SETI
Ricardo Vélez | Lina Vargas | Juan Daniel Sanchez | Juan Diego Aristizabal
FORÇA MAMBA
NEGRA /OS PAMONHAS
Douglas Costa | Christine Moreira | Daniel Trevelim | Bruno Piovezan
CHIVUNK
Denise Bacedo | Bhernar Martins | Gerson Machado | Daniel Ruiz
JAPI MULA MANCA
Andre Tolosa | Sergio Campos | Thomas Carareto |
LAGARTIXA
Alexandre Rossi | Charles Pierre Da Silva | Ana Trujillo | Daniel Pincu
TERRA DE GIGANTES SELVA
Caco Fonseca| Fabio Monteiro | Philipe Campello | Mariana Neves
NATUREX
Adrien Lhermet | Sonia Furtado | Romuald Viale | Merlin Denis
SAFERBO SETI COLOMBIA
Claudia Restrepo | Jorge Mario Rodríguez | Juan David Acevedo | Daniel Gómez
TRANSDEV CIUDADMOVIL
Jorge Diego Llano | Lorena Ramos | Xavi Rodríguez | Esteban Gómez
NOSSA VIDA
Jonas Junckes | Pedro Pinheiro| Leandro Tonet | Silvana Menegon
SECRETOS DE ULLUM
Jose Maria Tugores | Oscar Ferre | Mabel Ramírez | Ignacio Raigoso
URUGUAY NATURAL ULTRA SPORTS
Rubén Manduré | Federica Frontini | Gonzalo Smaldone | Fernando Pérez
ORBEA LITORAL
Corina Butti | Sergio Damian Ramos | Freddy Iragola | Ariel Ferreira
ZONA 3
Fernando Rivero | Nacho Garrone | Laura Rossi | Andres Bonelli
TRIPLE FRONTERA
Eliana García | Fernando Ramella | Douglas Kroetz | Oreste Friedrich
BROU AVENTURAS /
CANNONDALE / SHIMANO
Jose Elias | Thiago Drews Elias | Moacir Fernandes de Souza | Mariana Pontes
ANSILTA
Guillermo Ramos | Pablo Scadding | Nicolas Ramos | Magdalena Nieto
JURASICO ADVENTURE RACE
Andrés Canese | Maria Jose Rabery| Mario Marcelo Marmori|Alejandro Suehsner
SPORTOTAL
Lucas Vallejo | Edgardo Gonzalez | Nathalia Delgado | Nicolas Vallejo
DEL SOL TEAM
Maximiliano Blejman | Jorge Martin Vega | Patricia Lopez | Gerardo Martin Luluaga
PANIQUEADOS
Roberto Monges | Leticia Morro | Frederico Gall | Thiago Bonini
COLUMBIA MONTRAIL
Jon Ander Arambalza | Nick Gracie | Camila Nicolau | Guilherme Pahl
SALOMON / COMPRESSPORT
Ivan Doutreleau | Gustavo Morel | Raquel Lopez Moreira | Oscar Centurion
KINESIUM
Christophe Derouch | Nicolas Francineau | Daphné Derouch | Stephane Hadjan
Aventura
ENCAR CYCLING
ADVENTURE
Pablo Chomik | Jose Mercado| Luis Ayala | Verónica Meza
PANTANAL
Hugo Arce | Juan Ramón Cubas | Virginia Centurión | Víctor Luís Delvalle
PENDEVIEJOS / CUAL
Eduardo Quiroga | Mariana González | Mario González | Marcelo Lovera
"AG" EXPEDICIÓN
Oscar Gonzalez | Javier Agüero | Carlos Bogado | Cintia Ramirez
ÑANDUPE
Rodrigo Cubilla | Gabriel Fusillo | Francisco Vera | Guadalupe Samaniego
POBRES HIPPIES
Diego Arsenio León | Emilio Sanabria | Lidia María Cuevas | Tomas Brzohaty
TENONDETE
Alejandro Orrego | Sergio Morel | Javier Ruiz | Enzo Allegretti
TEJU GUAZU TEAM
Héctor Cabral | Hugo Bogado | Álvaro Martínez | Patricia Kolbe
SAPUKAI
Ilse Vázquez | Julian Martínez | Jorge Andrés Aquiño | Enrique Yamil
MERCENARIOS ORBEA
Luis Bernal | Carlos Barrail | Katherina Pedersen | Rolando Egusquiza
ANGIRU RACE
Guillermo Medina | Matias Colman | Cecilia Guerrero | Benjamín Martínez
Aventura Dupla
CBCA / OLHANDO AVENTURA / KORU
Arnaldo Maciel | Benito Teixeira
MUTANT BEACH
Rodrigo Jacks | Ralphie Zotti
PERKINS
Nestor Villamayor | Miguel Ángel Cárdenas
ADVOGADO AVENTUREIRO
Erasmo Cardoso | Heder Mendes
JAGUARETE AVENTURA
Hugo Fernandez | Veronica Meza
ADVOGADO AVENTUREIRO MINAS
Euder De Almeida | Marco Tulio
POBRES HIPPIES ECOSOVIET
José Carlos Lezcano | María José Sotelo