Balneário de Termas de Ibira
- Location
- Ibirá, São Paulo, Brazil
- Water type
- bicarbonate, radioactive, carbonated
- Temperature
- 38 °C
- pH
- 6.3
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Rich in active gases or metals — a strong mineral character.
Mineralised water — eases movement and joints.
In the São Paulo hinterland, more than 400 km from the state capital, the Termas de Ibirá spa developed on land granted by Emperor Dom Pedro II to Antônio Bernardino de Seixas in the late 19th century. A first wooden bathhouse with fifteen cabins was built in 1930 by residents of Ibirá, before being put up for auction in 1941 amid disputes between its founders.
Federal interventor Adhemar Pereira de Barros had a modern spa completed in 1947, the Joaquim Lemos bathhouse; it was succeeded in 1975 by the Evaristo Mendes Seixas bathhouse, still in operation today. Ibirá officially earned its spa-town title in December 1942, making it one of the oldest in São Paulo state. Its springs - Ademar de Barros, Carlos Gomes, Jorrante, Sara-Cura and Seixas - yield alkaline, bicarbonate-rich waters notable for their vanadium content, a rare mineral that gave the site its local reputation.