Ain Atrous
- Location
- Korbous, Tunisia
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 35 °C
- pH
- 7.5
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
Ain Atrous is a natural thermal spring in Tunisia where chloride-rich hot water emerges from the earth and has been used by local communities for bathing and therapeutic purposes within the long-established North African hammam tradition. Tunisia's thermal spring heritage stretches back to Roman times when the country, as the province of Africa Proconsularis, was dotted with thermae serving the empire's westernmost Mediterranean territories. The spring's cultural embeddedness in Tunisian rural life and the broader Maghrebi tradition of communal mineral bathing gives Ain Atrous an authentic regional character.