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Hot springs of Central America and the Caribbean
The hot springs of Central America and the Caribbean are thermal springs from Guatemala to Panama and on Caribbean volcanic islands, heated by subduction and arc volcanism.
Hot springs of China
The hot springs of China number over 2,700, concentrated in Yunnan, Tibet, and the south, with a 3,000-year bathing tradition and a resort industry worth 242.83 billion yuan in 2017.
Hot springs of Mexico
The hot springs of Mexico are groundwater discharges heated by the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, numbering more than 1,306 sites across 21 states, feeding resorts like Grutas de Tolantongo.
Hot springs of Mongolia and Central Asia
The hot springs of Mongolia and Central Asia are thermal waters emerging across Inner Asia's mountain belts without active volcanism, many developed into Soviet-era sanatoriums, several still operating.
Hot springs of Taiwan
The hot springs of Taiwan (台湾温泉) are thermal springs found island-wide, created by colliding tectonic plates and ranked among the world's top 15 hot spring destinations.
Hot springs of the Andes
The hot springs of the Andes are thermal springs of Pacific South America, heated by subduction-related volcanism and deep faults and used for bathing and resorts.
Hot springs of the Pacific islands
The hot springs of the Pacific islands are thermal springs across Melanesia, including near-boiling pools at Savusavu, Fiji, and 100°C springs on Savo volcano, Solomon Islands.
Hot springs of the US Pacific coast and Alaska
The hot springs of the US Pacific coast and Alaska are thermal springs in California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska, heated mostly by deep circulation through hot rock.
Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado
Hot Sulphur Springs is the county seat of Grand County, Colorado, a town built around natural hot springs on the Colorado River in Middle Park.
Jacumba Hot Springs, California
Jacumba Hot Springs, formerly known as Jacumba, is a small desert community in southeastern San Diego County, California, on the Mexican border, built around natural hot springs.
Jermuk
Jermuk (Ջերմուկ), Armenian spa town in Vayots Dzor at 2,080 m, about 170 km from Yerevan, built on some 40 thermal mineral springs (57-64 °C) compared with Karlovy Vary; Soviet resort founded 1940, source of Jermuk bottled water.
Kalliroe
Kalliroe (Kallirrhoe, Callirrhoe), ancient thermal springs at 'Ain ez-Zara on the Dead Sea's eastern shore in Jordan; famed resort where Herod the Great sought a cure before his death in 4 BCE.
Liard River Hot Springs Provincial Park
Liard River Hot Springs Provincial Park, a 1,082 ha BC park on the Alaska Highway at km 765, protects Canada's second largest hot spring (Alpha pool 42–52°C, 81 L/s), warm swamps, and the endemic Hotwater Physa snail.
List of hot springs
List of hot springs: survey of notable thermal springs and inventories, including Waring's ~6,000 global spring areas, the 1,700-spring US list, Yellowstone, Hot Springs National Park, and European spa towns.
List of hot springs in the United States
Hot springs of the United States: 1,661 documented thermal springs, concentrated in the West, from Hot Springs National Park (1832 reservation, 143°F water) and Yellowstone's 10,000+ features to resort, refuge, and Indigenous sites.
List of spa towns
List of spa towns: towns built around mineral or thermal springs for bathing and drinking cures. Covers the eleven UNESCO Great Spa Towns of Europe, British, Czech, and other notable resorts, their 1700s-1930s heyday, and clinical evidence.
Manikaran
Manikaran: pilgrimage village in Parvati Valley, Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh, India, famed for hot springs up to 97 °C, Gurudwara Manikaran Sahib where langar cooks in spring water, and a 5 kW pilot geothermal plant.
Mondorf les bains
Mondorf-les-Bains (Munnerëf) is a Luxembourg spa town on the French border. Its thermal spring was found in 1841, the first bath opened 20 June 1847, and it hosts US Mondorf football club and the Stade John Grün.
Neyrac-les-Bains
Neyrac-les-Bains, a thermal spa in Meyras, Ardèche, France, on the maar Doris volcano; 37°C carbogazeous bicarbonated water, a rare CO2 mofette, Roman origins, and cures for skin and rheumatic conditions.
Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan (西山温泉慶雲館)
Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan (西山温泉慶雲館), also called Koshu Nishiyama Hot Spring Keiunkan, is a hot-spring ryokan in Hayakawa, Yamanashi, Japan, founded in 705 by Fujiwara Mahito and Guinness-certified since 2011 as the world's oldest hotel.
Old Faithful
Old Faithful, a cone geyser in Yellowstone National Park's Upper Geyser Basin, Wyoming, erupts boiling water up to 184 feet every 54 minutes to about two hours.
Onsen (温泉)
Onsen (温泉) are Japanese hot springs and the bathing facilities built on them, legally defined by the 1948 Hot Spring Law, distinct from sento public baths, with over 2,300 facilities, nude bathing etiquette, and a toji spa-cure tradition.
Pink and White Terraces
Pink and White Terraces (Te Otukapuarangi, Te Tarata): giant silica sinter terraces at Lake Rotomahana, New Zealand, famed as the eighth wonder of the world, destroyed or buried by the 1886 Mount Tarawera eruption; location and survival still disputed.
Poços de Caldas
Poços de Caldas, a spa city in southern Minas Gerais, Brazil, founded 6 November 1872 around sulfurous thermal springs on an extinct volcanic caldera; known for its hydrothermal heritage complex, Palace Casino era, and high development indices.
Puritama Hot Springs
Puritama Hot Springs (Termas de Puritama) is a set of eight geothermal pools on the Puritama River in Chile's Atacama Desert, near San Pedro de Atacama.
Roman Baths (Bath)
Roman Baths (Bath): Roman bathing and temple complex at Aquae Sulis, built 60-70 AD around 45 °C hot springs, rediscovered from 1727, museum since 1897, over 1 million visitors in 2025.
Salins-les-Thermes
Salins-les-Thermes, Savoie village and spa resort in the Tarentaise, administrative centre of Salins-Fontaine; renamed by 1926 decree, with saline thermal springs above 15 g/L discharging over 40 tonnes of salt daily.
Soda geyser
A soda geyser, also called a Mentos and coke geyser, is a fountain of carbonated liquid produced when dissolved carbon dioxide erupts from a soda, famously after Mentos candy is dropped in.
Steamboat Geyser
Steamboat Geyser, in Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone, is the world's tallest active geyser, with major eruptions over 91 m, intervals of 3 days to 50 years, and active phases in the 1960s, 1980s, and since 2018.
Széchenyi thermal bath
Széchenyi Thermal Bath (Széchenyi Gyógyfürdő), Budapest's largest medicinal bath in City Park, opened 1913 from Győző Czigler's Neo-Baroque design, fed by artesian wells drilled by Vilmos Zsigmondy, with 18 pools.