Termas de San Nicanor
- Location
- Departamento de Paysandú, Uruguay
- Water type
- thermal
- Temperature
- 35 °C
- pH
- 7
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Rich in trace elements — gentle on the skin.
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Termas de San Nicanor is a small and charming natural hot spring resort in the Rivera Department of northeastern Uruguay, near the Brazilian border, where lightly mineral oligomineral geothermal water tapped from the Guaraní Aquifer feeds a modest thermal complex in a rural gaucho landscape. The resort's intimate scale, pastoral setting, and border location — Rivera merges seamlessly with the Brazilian city of Santana do Livramento — give it a distinctive Uruguayan-Brazilian character reflecting the bicultural life of Uruguay's northern frontier. The surrounding Rivera countryside, with its forests, reservoirs, and frontier gaucho culture, provides an authentically Uruguayan thermal experience far from the larger commercial resorts.