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Caviahue
Right in the province of Neuquén, at the foot of the Copahue volcano and at
the Caviahue lakeside, flourishes this mountain village which in mapuche
language means "place for celebration or reunion’’.
Caviahue posseses a rustic landscape
sprinkled with streams, falls and woods.
In winter, copious snowfalls cover the territory in white. In this season the
tourist can practise skiing in the white valleys and the nearby plains. The ski
runs, used for the cross-country style and, in a lesser degree, for the Alpine
style, follow one onother embedded in araucaria woods. These ski runs are
undulated and vary both in difficulty and length.
Due to a curious climatic phenomenom, the Caviahue temperature is good both in
summer and winter.
In summer, its surroundings are specially suitable for adventure tourism, such
as horseback riding, sporting fishing, mountaineering or familiar exploratory
walkings, mainly due to the relatively low level of difficulty in the region
trails and paths.
It offers a comfortable hotel service infrastructure.
Copahue
This small village, famous for its thermal baths, has
not a stable population, and is only inhabited during the summer season by
swallow inhabitants.
Copahue is embedded in a ten hectares ravine.The whole area displays a heavy and
complex thermal activity, recognised as one of the best three in the world.
At present, a high complexity centre with capacity for 2500 thermal baths per
day has been installed. A distinguished group of professionals and technicians
supervise the treatments with the aim of giving advice on the most convenient
type of baths.
Here rheumatic, respiratory and dermatologic affections are treated in
comfortable individual cabins or in the traditional grouping baths.
In this centre, you can receive balneotherapy, massotherapy and kinesiotherapy
treatments that get complemented with re-education and physical rehabilitation.
it also has dressing rooms, gymnasium, and sauna.
The thermal installations in the open air belong to El Chancho and Verde
ponds.
It also posseses several drinking water springs, which receive different names
according to their characteristics: Vichy, Sulphurous, Lemon's,
Mate's and Volcano's.
You will also find fumaroles for treatments of vapour in cabins.
Three times a week there is a market place that organize the mountain range
inhabitants, where you can buy handicrafts such as blankets, ponchos, sockets,
basketry, birds, and fruits of the region.
As Copahue is a small town, it has a reduced but high quality lodging
infrastructure.
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