Baños IPLA
- Location
- Pica, Tarapaca Region, Chile
- Water type
- sulfurous
- Temperature
- 42 °C
- pH
- 6.5
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Rich in active gases or metals — a strong mineral character.
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Baños IPLA is a sulphurous thermal bathing facility in Chile, its initials suggesting an institutional or organisational management structure associated with a local body or cooperative that has developed and maintains the natural hot spring for community use. Thermal springs managed by local institutions, cooperatives, and municipalities form a significant part of Chile's geothermal bathing landscape, ensuring that naturally sulphurous mineral water — long associated with well-being — is accessible to local communities without the commercialisation of large resort developments. The facility provides warm, sulphurous spring water in an authentic Chilean community bathing format.