Baños del Pino — El Hierro
- Location
- Valverde, Spain
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 35 °C
- pH
- 7.3
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
El Hierro is the smallest, westernmost, and most remote of the Canary Islands, a volcanic Atlantic island that was designated the world's first 100 percent renewable energy island in 2015, combining wind and hydroelectric power to meet all its electricity needs — a landmark of island sustainable energy. The Banos del Pino are natural volcanic rock pools on the rugged Atlantic coast near Valverde, where chloride-rich Atlantic Ocean water is trapped in basaltic cliff formations and warmed by both solar energy and residual volcanic geothermal heat, creating free-access natural bathing pools of extraordinary scenic drama at the edge of the open Atlantic. El Hierro was the zero meridian of the ancient world — the westernmost edge of the Earth in Ptolemy's cartography — and its sense of being at the very limit of the known world, combined with the geothermal coastal pools and the submarine volcano that erupted off its shores in 2011, makes it one of the most geologically and symbolically charged natural spa destinations on any European territory.