Aguas Calientes de Collpa

Aguas Calientes de Collpa is a naturally sulphurous thermal spring in the high Andean landscape of South America, set in the stark, treeless puna environment of the Collpa area where geothermal activity associated with the Andean volcanic arc brings hot, mineral-rich water to the surface at high altitude. The spring's remote altiplano setting creates a bathing experience of extraordinary elemental intensity, where the heat of the volcanic earth contrasts with the cold, clear air and the vast, open landscape of the high Andes. The naturally warm sulphurous waters have been known and used by Aymara and Quechua communities in the area for centuries as a resource of both practical and ceremonial significance.