Fuente de los Baños

Fuente de los Baños is a natural mineral spring in Montanejos, in the Alto Mijares comarca of Castellón province. The spring discharges roughly 6,000 litres of water per minute at a constant 25°C throughout the year, carving through an impressive limestone gorge nearly 15 metres high before joining the Mijares River. Its temperate, unchanging waters made it a health-tourism destination in the 18th and 19th centuries, valued for cardiovascular, liver, hypertension and rheumatoid conditions. Today the site is protected as a local ethnological space of interest, with natural pools, picnic areas and walking paths, and it also plays an ecological role in replenishing the Mijares River downstream of upstream dam diversions.