Termas de Río Hondo is a
spa city in
Santiago del Estero Province
Santiago del Estero (), also known simply as Santiago, is a province in the north of Argentina. Neighboring provinces, clockwise from the north, are Salta, Chaco, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Catamarca and Tucumán.
History
The indigenous inhabita ...
, Argentina. It has 27,838 inhabitants as per the . It is located on the banks of the
Dulce River, 65 km north of the provincial capital
Santiago del Estero, near the artificial Río Hondo Lake.
The
hot spring
A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth. The groundwater is heated either by shallow bodies of magma (molten rock) or by c ...
s (
Spanish
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* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Can ...
: ''termas'',
Quechua
Quechua may refer to:
*Quechua people, several indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru
*Quechuan languages, a Native South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language
**So ...
: ''yacu rupaj'') of the area have a temperature of over 30
°C (86
°F), and have made the town a popular
spa resort for Argentines, who enjoy the waters recommended against high
blood pressure and
rheumatism. Two public pools, ''La Olla'' and the ''Pileta Municipal'', are near the town centre, along with many well-regarded hotels and restaurants.
New investments done in the last years were the new
Las Termas Airport and
Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo
Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo is a motorsport circuit located in Termas de Río Hondo, Argentina. The circuit was opened in 2008 and underwent a complete overhaul and rebuild process in 2012, based on design by the Italian circuit designe ...
, totally rebuilt to host
MotoGP World Championship racing starting from April 2014.
The town was on the route of the
2015 and
2016 Dakar Rally.
References
External links
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Autodromo di Termas de Rio Hondo Official HomepageMotoGP in Termas de Rio Hondo
Populated places in Santiago del Estero Province
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