Grutas de Tolantongo
Turquoise thermal river and cliff-edge pools in a canyon in Hidalgo, Mexico.
Carlos Adampol Galindo / Wikimedia Commons
- Temperatura de baño
- 36°C
- Baño
- Exterior
- Alojamiento
- Hotel en el recinto
Warm mineral water emerges from a cave and tunnel at the head of the Tolantongo canyon and runs downstream as a bathable turquoise river, roughly 34–38°C. Terraces of small pools are built into the cliff face above it.
Mirada Balnevia
Por qué visitarlo
Bathing in a moving thermal river, and in pools set into a canyon wall, at a scale and setting that has no real equivalent in Europe.
Recomendaciones
Hotels nearby
Descubre dónde alojarse cerca de Grutas de Tolantongo.
El agua
Agua termal
- Manantial
- Tolantongo cave and tunnel springs
- Carácter
- Warm carbonate-rich water, turquoise where it enters the river
Historia
The site is run as a cooperative (ejido) by the local community, which built and maintains the pools, bridges and lodging along the canyon.
Información práctica
Cash is essential — card payment is unreliable and there are no banks nearby. Weekends and Mexican holidays fill the site; midweek is calmer.
Cómo llegar
About 4h30 by car from Mexico City via Ixmiquilpan; the final descent into the canyon is steep and narrow but paved.