Termas de Papallacta Quito
- Location
- Papallacta, Ecuador
- Water type
- calcium-rich, bicarbonate
- Temperature
- 35 °C
- pH
- 3.8
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Termas de Papallacta is Ecuador's premier thermal resort, perched at 3,300 meters in the cloud forest páramo east of Quito where sulfate-bicarbonate waters at 56°C emerge from volcanic fault zones on the eastern Andes slope, just 65 km from the capital. The resort complex offers multiple pool systems from rooftop soaking pools with Antisana volcano views to cascading forest pools where orchids, hummingbirds, and Andean spectacled bears inhabit the surrounding cloud forest. The exceptional accessibility from Quito — on the Amazonia highway route — combined with the world-class natural setting makes Papallacta the ideal complement to Galápagos wildlife encounters and Andean cultural experiences on an Ecuador itinerary.