Aguas Calientes Jarabacoa

Aguas Calientes Jarabacoa is a thermal spring facility in Jarabacoa, a highland resort town in La Vega Province in the Cordillera Central of the Dominican Republic, often described as the Himalayas of the Caribbean or simply La Suiza Dominicana for its dramatically atypical cool mountain climate at 529 meters elevation that provides a refreshing contrast to the tropical heat of the Caribbean lowlands and attracts Dominicans from the hot lowland cities seeking relief in the pine-forested highland environment of waterfalls, rivers, and cool breezes. Jarabacoa is famous for its adventure tourism centered on the Jimenoa and Baiguate waterfalls, white-water rafting on the Yaque del Norte River, paragliding from the surrounding ridges, and mountain biking in the pine forests of the Armando Bermúdez National Park that protect the headwaters of the Dominican Republic's most important river. The sodium-bicarbonate thermal spring waters here, emerging from the geological heat of the Cordillera Central's geologically active uplift zone, provide warmth and therapeutic mineral benefits in a mountain resort town whose cool highland climate, adventure sports culture, and scenic waterfall landscapes create the Caribbean's most unexpected wellness destination in a tropical mountain environment unlike anywhere else in the island chain.