Pozas de Zacapa
- Location
- Copán, Honduras
- Temperature
- 38 °C
- pH
- 7.1
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Rich in active gases or metals — a strong mineral character.
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Pozas de Zacapa in the Copán Department of Honduras are geothermal and sulfurous spring pools in the volcanic highland landscape of western Honduras near the Santa Bárbara mountain massif, emerging from geological formations shaped by the same volcanic processes that built the Central American cordillera. The pools are set in a rural landscape of coffee and cardamom cultivation characteristic of western Honduras's highland agricultural economy, providing a natural thermal bathing resource for communities in the Copán and Santa Bárbara departments. Pozas de Zacapa represents the grassroots thermal heritage of Honduras beyond the internationally marketed Luna Jaguar resort, where volcanic warm water pools serve local communities in an authentically Honduran highland setting.