Aguas Calientes Hot Springs
- Location
- Aguas Calientes, Peru
- Water type
- bicarbonate
- Temperature
- 40 °C
- pH
- 7
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Aguas Calientes Hot Springs in Aguas Calientes — also known as Machu Picchu Pueblo — in the Cusco region of Peru offers a remarkable thermal experience just minutes from the most visited archaeological site in the Americas. The bicarbonate mineral springs emerge from the steep forested slopes of the Urubamba valley, channelled into a series of open-air thermal pools that provide welcome warmth after the chill of high-altitude Machu Picchu. Bathing here, surrounded by cloud forest and dramatic mountain peaks, with condors occasionally soaring overhead, is an experience of extraordinary natural beauty. The proximity to Machu Picchu makes Aguas Calientes a natural base for combining Inca history with genuine mountain thermal relaxation.