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Natural pool · 34 °C

Balneario Ojo Caliente Arteaga

Arteaga, Coahuila

A seep along Sierra Madre faults, from 32 to 36 °C, in a rustic pool.

Balneario Ojo Caliente Arteaga
Illustrated cover drawn from the site's real temperature. A photograph goes here once it has a licence we can publish.

The water

In the pool
32–36 °C

cool and good for swimming

As it leaves the ground
No vent on record

Mixed. A blend of volcanic and sedimentary inputs

Why it surfaces here

Seep along faults.

Anticlinal Sierra Madre. Faults of the semi-desert and the high plateau, from Coahuila and Sonora down to Aguascalientes.