Photo by Thelmadatter, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
🇲🇽 Mexico · State of Mexico (Ixtapan de la Sal)
Photo by Thelmadatter, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
🇲🇽 Mexico · State of Mexico (Ixtapan de la Sal)
♨ Temperature
38.5°C
⛰ Altitude
1937 m
⚗ pH
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💧 TDS
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🌊 Flow rate
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📅 Established
Thermal springs used by indigenous communities since the late 14th century for salt extraction; modern water park developed in the 20th century
✓ Verified on 2026-07-31
Ixtapan de la Sal has drawn bathers to its warm, mineral-rich waters since indigenous communities settled here in the late 14th century to extract salt from the springs. The thermal water, which rises from a volcanic underground flow at roughly 37-40°C, now feeds Parque Acuático Ixtapan, one of the largest thermal water parks in Latin America, alongside nearby spa hotels such as the Ixtapan Spa Hotel & Golf Resort and Marriott Ixtapan de la Sal. Beyond the slides and family pools, the park keeps dedicated thermal spring pools running on the natural source, and the town itself -- named a Pueblo Mágico in 2015 -- still has La Laguna Verde, a spring where carbonated mineral water bubbles up naturally from the subsoil.
The Nahua and Matlatzinca peoples who settled the Ixtapan basin in the late 14th century used its warm springs to evaporate and harvest salt, giving the town its name ('place where salt is refined'). The springs later became the foundation of Mexico's modern balneario and spa-tourism tradition.
Phone+52 721 143 2200
Websitewww.ixtapan.com
AddressProlongación Ciprés, Ixtapan de la Sal, Estado de México, 51900, México