Pozas Termales de Santa Fe
- Location
- Santa Fe, Andalusia, Spain
- 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.
Tucked among olive groves in the peri-urban park of Dehesa de Santa Fe, some twenty minutes from Granada, these three warm pools trace their origin to a deep borehole originally drilled in search of thermal water. In 2003 a property developer filled the pools with earth to keep visitors away before going bankrupt, after which the site was left abandoned and later reopened for free public access.
According to Spain's Geological and Mining Institute, the water is hyperthermal and strongly mineralized, belonging to the sulphate-calcium-magnesium group, rich in iron, magnesium, sulphur, sodium and calcium. Simple yet genuine, it remains one of the few free wild bathing spots this close to a major Andalusian city.