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Since ancient times, humans have used hot springs, public baths and thermal medicine for therapeutic effects. [3] Bathing in hot, mineral water is an ancient ritual. The Latin phrase sanitas per aquam means "health through water", involving the treatment of disease and various ailments by balneotherapy in natural hot springs. [2]
There are hot springs on all continents and in many countries around the world. Countries that are renowned for their hot springs include Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Fiji, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Japan, Romania, Turkey, Taiwan, New Zealand, and the United States, but there are interesting and unique hot springs in many other places as well.
The center of Hot Springs is the oldest federal reserve in the United States, today preserved as Hot Springs National Park. The hot spring water has been popularly believed for centuries to possess healing properties, and was a subject of legend among several Native American tribes.
The remains of the hotel has survived into the present but the hot springs dried up as ground water was pumped out for irrigation. Sam Hughes currently owns the Agua Caliente property that includes the hotel, which is no longer open, the caretakers quarters and approximately 2,700 acres (1,100 ha) of surrounding property.
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Arenal is often cited by scientists as being in the top 10 or top 20 of the world's most active volcanoes. [5] [6] [7] La Fortuna is less than 10 kilometres (6 mi) from the 5,480 feet (1,670 m) peak of Arenal and less than 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Arenal Volcano National Park entrance, which is west of the peak, whereas La Fortuna is east of the peak.
The statue was broken into pieces when the cult sanctuary closed, archaeologists said.
Hot Springs, Manicaland, in Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe Modern Caldas de Reis in Spain was called Aquae calidae (Ancient Greek: Ὕδατα Θερμά, meaning hot springs ) in ancient times Other uses