Aguas Termales de Santo Tomás

Aguas Termales de Santo Tomás is a natural thermal spring in the Chumbivilcas Province of Cusco Region, Peru, where sulfate-magnesium mineral waters emerge in the remote highland landscape of the Apurímac watershed, serving the isolated Quechua communities of one of the least-visited and most traditionally Andean corners of the Cusco region at altitudes exceeding 3,500 metres. The sulfate-magnesium spring chemistry is valued within the long thermal tradition, providing accessible mineral bathing to communities in a province famous for its thriving bullfighting tradition — the Yawar Fiesta (blood festival) that pits a condor tethered to a bull's back against the bull in an extraordinary spectacle blending Andean and Spanish colonial cultural traditions. The remote Chumbivilcas landscape, with its vast puna grasslands, llama and alpaca herds, and the rugged character of highland Andean communities far from tourism infrastructure, makes the Santo Tomás springs a genuinely off-the-beaten-path thermal destination.