Termas de Socos Coquimbo

Termas de Socos, located near the town of Ovalle in the Coquimbo Region of Chile's Norte Chico, offers calcium and sulfate thermal waters at approximately 44°C in a striking semi-arid valley where the arid landscapes of the Atacama give way to the Mediterranean scrublands of central Chile — a zone famous for the extraordinary desert bloom of the Atacama after rare rainfall events. The naturally hot waters, emerging from deep geological formations of the Chilean coastal Andes, are channelled into therapeutic pools used for musculoskeletal and circulatory treatments in a setting of unusual geological and botanical interest. The nearby Elqui Valley — Chile's premier pisco-producing region and one of the world's premier astronomical zones thanks to its clear skies — adds a distinctive cultural dimension to a thermal visit to this northern Chilean spa.