Aguas Calientes Uyuni

Aguas Calientes Uyuni is located near San Pedro de Quemez in the Potosí Department of Bolivia, in the volcanic highlands southwest of the Salar de Uyuni—the world's largest salt flat—where bicarbonate thermal springs emerge from the geothermal activity of the southern Altiplano's Central Volcanic Zone, an active chain of Andean volcanoes. The bicarbonate mineral composition of these high-altitude springs carries properties associated with gastrointestinal support, skin hydration, and the warming of the body against the extreme cold of Bolivia's southwestern plateau, where temperatures can drop sharply even during daylight hours across this wind-exposed desert landscape. The proximity to the Salar de Uyuni—whose blinding white salt crust, flamingo-inhabited lagoons, and surreal volcanic islands have made it one of the world's most photographed landscapes—gives these thermal springs a setting of truly extraordinary geological spectacle within the Andean volcanic arc.