Chumathang
- Location
- Chumathang, India
- Water type
- sulfurous
- Temperature
- 35 °C
- pH
- 7.2
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Rich in active gases or metals — a strong mineral character.
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Chumathang is a village in Changthang district, Ladakh in northern India on the banks of the Indus River. Chumathang village is among the first villages in the Changthang region to have its own power station and government high school which was only possible under the guidance of Hemis and Chemday Monastery. Famous for its hot spring which attracts many tourists all over the world, even the local people come every year to enjoy the hot spring within a long thermal tradition. There is an old monastery or gonpa which is located near the road which is about more than 400 years old and is among the oldest monasteries of Ladakh.