Hotel Horacio Quiroga Thermal

Hotel Horacio Quiroga Thermal in Salto, Uruguay, honours the memory of the celebrated Uruguayan short story writer Horacio Quiroga, who lived in this region, by combining the town of Salto's thermal heritage with literary cultural tourism in a bicarbonate-rich Guaraní Aquifer hot spring resort setting. The hotel's thermal pools draw on the deep geothermal water of the aquifer that underlies much of Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil, and its proximity to the Salto Grande hydroelectric dam and the Uruguay River provides a dramatic geographical context. The literary connection to one of Latin America's masters of the horror and wilderness short story gives this thermal destination an intellectually distinctive character.