Baths of the Inca
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Baths of the Incas
The tourist Bath have thermus-medicinal waters which provide health, rest to us and, coverall, allows us to enjoy the benefits and satisfactions that entail to visit them. One of the most important bath of America and world they are in the department of Cajamarca and are known like the Baths of the Inca.
Location
The Baths of the Inca are the department of Cajamarca, to 6 km to the east of the city. Cajamarca. It exists transports private public and that makes this route of daily way so that the visitors can accede to the enclosure. The route is made approximately in 15 minutes in car.
History
Poza traditional
The historical material registry makes suppose that those were the Incas that initiated the use of the spring for recreation of the Inca and its sequito. The name quechua that I grant myself to him to the site is Inti Puquio that means “spring of the Sun” or “divine spring. Also it used to call to it him Nina Yaku, “fire water” and Pulltumarka “hot place” the town that lodges it. Today simply it is known him like the Baths of the Inca.
According to the tradition, to the arrival from the conquerors to the empire, the Atahualpa Inca and his séquito they were in these baths In agreement with Spanish chronicles, rested the governor of the Tahuantinsuyo with an intimate séquito here, to which they added a select group of civil employees and heads of the chaste military man. To the arrival of the Spaniards, in 1532, Atahualpa was, indeed, enjoying one season of rest in the Inti Puquio. The Baths of the Inca During the incaico splendor, were a satately residence surrounded by trees and springs. One was a bath of luxury of high hierarchy.
In 1959, the Congress of the Republic decided to turn the town the district the Baths of the Inca. At the present time, the tourist complex receives every day to about four thousand visitors worldwide. The main attraction of the tourist circuit of the department of Cajamarca is considered. Here is the famous Poza of the Inca, who measures four meters in length by four of wide and has a depth of a meter with seventy centimeters. In this place, according to the historians, Atahualpa replenished its forces before undertaking new days of conquest and, later, to fight to the followers of Huáscar, their brother.
Description
Flowers in the modern complex
The Baths of the Inca have thermal waters of temperatures superior to 70ºC (158ºF). The minerals that compose them have therapeutic properties for the treatment of affections to the bones and the nervous system; for his benefit they have designed pozas in which the hot water is mixed with cold water. Originally it was denominated to the place.
This place is specially attractive by its thermal waters, but also it offers a beautiful natural landscape, lodgings and magnificent restaurants. The waters have medicinal properties for the cure of rheumatic diseases, nervous affections and of the skin. The smoky liquid arises from the volcanic rock of the subsoil, whose temperature reaches the 70 and 75 degrees Celsius. Numerous testimonies of cured people of reumatismos, bronchitis and other evils give faith of the sanador power of these termominerales or scientifically termoiónicas denominated waters.
The heat of the water is of origin magmatic or volcanic still very latent that knows from times preIncas. One treats, then, of underground hot water springs known like the Tragadero and the Perolitos. The waters according to the made analyses are rich in sodium, potassium, lithium, calcium and strontium, also contains iron, magnesium and silica; for that reason sódica water is denominated to him - carbonated - calcium - clorurada - sulphated. The thermal waters of these baths, are highly medicinal specially for rheumatic diseases and treatment of the skin. Also for nervous affections.
The Baths of the Inca includes/understands shelters and a hall conferences and modules for expendio to the passage of meals and drinks and crafts. Also by its proximity to the city, they count on abundant public transport, in addition to all type of services, and a level of security for the tourists and families who dress this place
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