Aguas Termales Ojo de Fantasmo
- Location
- Banos de Agua Santa, Tungurahua, Ecuador
- Water type
- sulfurous
- Temperature
- 38 °C
- pH
- 6.5
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Rich in active gases or metals — a strong mineral character.
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Aguas Termales Ojo de Fantasma — Eye of the Ghost Hot Spring — is located in the celebrated thermal town of Baños de Agua Santa at the foot of the active Tungurahua volcano in central Ecuador. The sulfurous springs are fed directly by the volcanic hydrothermal system, giving the water a characteristic blue-green tint reminiscent of a ghostly eye and a pronounced mineral character.
Baños de Agua Santa is Ecuador's thermal capital, a gateway town between the Amazon and the Andes, set deep within the gorges of the Pastaza River. The constant presence of Tungurahua — whose nocturnal glow can sometimes be seen from the pools during periods of activity — lends each soak a spectacular and faintly mysterious quality. The 38 °C sulfurous waters offer a soothing warmth and enveloping sensation after a day of hiking or whitewater adventure.
The atmosphere of Baños combines the energy of adventure sports on the Pastaza gorge, the gentleness of strolling through the colonial quarter, and the magic of nocturnal thermal bathing under equatorial skies. Ojo de Fantasma occupies a particular place within this landscape — an intimate, singular site set amid forces of the earth still visibly at work.