Maquinit Hot Spring
- Location
- Coron, Palawan, Philippines
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 39 °C
- pH
- 7.2
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
Maquinit Hot Spring on Coron Island in northern Palawan is one of the very few saltwater hot springs in the world, where chloride-rich geothermal water heated to around forty degrees Celsius flows into a mangrove-fringed pool just steps from the saltwater cove of Coron Bay, creating a uniquely brackish thermal bathing experience in one of the most scenically spectacular settings in the Philippine archipelago. Coron is globally renowned for its world-class wreck diving among Japanese shipwrecks from World War II and for the crystal-clear turquoise lakes of Coron Island's limestone karst interior, and a visit to Maquinit after a day of diving or lake exploration provides the most pleasurable tropical thermal recovery imaginable in this island paradise. Afternoon visits as the sun drops toward the dramatic limestone cliffs and the bay catches the golden hour light transform the bathing experience into a moment of extraordinary Philippine natural beauty that no photographer will leave without capturing.