Aguas Calientes de Zuata
- Location
- Zuata, Anzoategui State, Venezuela, Venezuela
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 38 °C
- pH
- 7.3
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.
Aguas Calientes de Zuata is a natural thermal spring in Anzoátegui State in northeastern Venezuela, a region of diverse landscapes transitioning between the vast Llanos grasslands to the south and the Mesa de Guanipa oil-producing plateau, set within a country whose extraordinary petroleum wealth has historically coexisted with remarkable natural biodiversity including the Orinoco River basin, the Gran Sabana tepui plateau, and extensive coastal mangrove systems. The chloride-rich thermal spring waters here, emerging at approximately 38 degrees Celsius, offer therapeutic bathing in a region of Venezuela where the natural environment of the Orinoco basin hinterland provides a counterpoint to the industrial oil infrastructure that dominates the northeastern state's economic landscape and defines its relationship with the global energy economy. Soaking in the warm natural waters of this spring connects visitors to a Venezuelan thermal tradition that predates the petroleum era, drawing on geothermal resources that emerge from the deep geological structures underlying the northern edge of the South American craton.