Baños Termales de Huancahuasi

Baños Termales de Huancahuasi is a natural thermal spring complex in the Lima Region highlands of Peru, where chloride-sodium-sulfate waters emerge in the Andes foothills east of Lima, serving as one of the most accessible high-Andean thermal bathing destinations for the residents of Peru's capital — the world's second-largest desert city and home to a third of the country's population who seek weekend escapes into the cooler highland environment. The multi-mineral spring composition — combining chloride, sodium, and sulfate in one water source — is valued within the long thermal tradition of highland Lima communities. The surrounding Huancahuasi landscape of eucalyptus groves, potato fields, and traditional Andean herding villages provides a genuine highland Peruvian setting for this accessible thermal bathing resource in the sierra regions behind the capital.