Aguas Calientes Arequipa
- Location
- Arequipa, Arequipa Region, Peru
- Water type
- bicarbonate
- Temperature
- 36 °C
- pH
- 8
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Aguas Calientes Arequipa draws visitors to Peru's 'White City,' Arequipa, whose stunning historic center of baroque churches, convents, and mansions built from sillar — a white volcanic stone quarried from the lava fields of the surrounding volcanoes — was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000, its streets and façades creating an architectural ensemble unlike any other in South America. The city's dramatic natural setting, surrounded by three volcanoes including the perfect snow-capped cone of El Misti (5,822 meters), gives Arequipa a visual backdrop of extraordinary grandeur, and the nearby Colca Canyon — twice the depth of the Grand Canyon — offers some of the planet's most reliable opportunities to observe the Andean condor in flight from the Cruz del Condor viewpoint. The bicarbonate thermal springs of the Arequipa region, fed by the geothermal energy of one of the world's most volcanically active zones, invite guests to soak in naturally heated mineral waters in the highland landscape that surrounds one of South America's most architecturally distinctive and scenically spectacular cities.