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Red boardwalk and slate hot-spring pools in the ravine at Termas Geométricas

Coñaripe/Chile

Termas Geométricas

Seventeen slate pools along a fern-filled ravine in the Chilean Andes.

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Bathing temperature
40°C
Bathing
Outdoor
Established
2004

Termas Geométricas threads a single red walkway 450 m along a steep ravine near Coñaripe, linking seventeen slate-lined pools fed by hot springs. Each pool has its own changing hut and its own water temperature.

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Why visit

It is one of the most precisely designed thermal landscapes anywhere: architecture reduced to a boardwalk, a colour and the sound of water.

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The water

Thermal water

Source
Coñaripe ravine springs
Character
Volcanic hot-spring water distributed to seventeen slate pools

History

Opened in 2004 to a design by the Chilean architect Germán del Sol, whose scheme deliberately left the ravine's vegetation and springs untouched.

Practical information

Numbers are capped, so book ahead in the Chilean summer. Towels are available on site; the walkway is stepped and not step-free.

Official website

Getting there

About 1h30 by car from Villarrica or Panguipulli on partly gravel roads inside the Villarrica National Park area.

Location

Coñaripe, Chile-39.7833, -71.9500View on Balnevia map