Aguas Termales de Chignahuapan

Chignahuapan -- a Nahuatl name meaning roughly 'place of nine waters' -- sits in a mineral-rich volcanic basin in northern Puebla, where several natural hot springs rise across the municipality. The best known emerges in the Tenextla district at an initial temperature of around 51°C at the source, cooling to a bathing range of roughly 25-38°C by the time it reaches the resort's pools. Long recognized locally for their therapeutic properties, the springs today feed a modest balneario with thermal pools, changing rooms and simple lodging -- a quieter counterpart to the town's better-known Pueblo Mágico attractions of Christmas-ornament (esferas) workshops and the floating Cristo de la Paz statue on the nearby lagoon.