Explore · Salto, Uruguay
Why Salto?
Hot springs at 46 °C, dorado fishing on the Uruguay River, and an estancia where people come to pray by day and watch the sky by night.
Photograph: Marcelo Cattani
Six chapters
Salto sits on the Uruguay River, equidistant from Montevideo and Buenos Aires: about 5 hours by road from either, and you can fly in too. The hot springs are why most people come. The river, the table and the estancias are why they end up staying longer than they planned.
- 01The Termas
- 02The River
- 03Citrus Country
- 04The Table
- 05The City
- 06La Aurora
Chapter Two
The River and the Lake
The river the city was built on, and the lake above the dam.
The river and the riverfront
Chapter Three
Citrus Country
Most of Uruguay’s citrus, in rows of orange and mandarin groves around the city.
Into the countryside
Chapter Four
The Table
The best meal here is the one you cook yourself, on a public grill.
How to eat here
Chapter Five
The City
Three museums, a 19th-century theatre, the brick vaults of Eladio Dieste, and the streets Suárez and Cavani come from.
Hours and what is there
Chapter Six
La Aurora
A tree burned, a dog died, and people still come: to the grotto by day, to the sky by night.
Read the storyThe five hot springs, and the water park
Which termas?
- 01Termas del DaymánThe most to do10 km · 46 °C · UYU 200 · 11 pools, hotels, a water park
- 02Parque Termal Agua ClaraQuiet7 km · 45 °C · UYU 300 · four large pools on the Daymán River
- 03Parque Acuático Termas de Salto GrandeChildren and the lake15 km · hot-spring water · UYU 650 · open every day, 10:00 to 18:00
- 04Termas del ArapeyA resort stay80 km · 39 °C · paid at the gate · open country, flowing since 1945
- 05Termas de San NicanorA night on an estanciaIn the campo · hot-spring pools · guests only
- 06AcuamaníaThe water parkBeside Termas del Daymán · 10 rides on warm water · season 18 Sep to 28 Mar, 10:30 to 18:30
Prices from the parks’ own lists, October 2026. Which one to choose, month by month, and the questions people ask: the comparison on the Daymán page.