CAVIAHUE / COPAHUE

 

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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.

Skiing (Caviahue)
Thermalism (Copahue)
Adventure Tourism
 

Location


Province of Neuquén

Average Temperature
(Celsius) 
Summer -- / --
Winter -- / --

Population
(Habitantes)
400 / --

Height
(m.a.s.l.)
1.650 / 2.050

Distances
(Kilometres)
PROVINCE'S CAPITALS
Buenos Aires 1527
Córdoba 1533
Corrientes 2277
Formosa 2422
La Plata 1526
La Rioja 1685
Mendoza 1200
Neuquén 366
Paraná 1759
Posadas 2451
Rawson 1108
Resistencia 2262
Río Gallegos 2240
Salta 2383
S.F.V.Catamarca 1835
San Juan 1368
San Luis 1150
S.M.Tucumán 2079
S.S.Jujuy 2411
Santa Fe 1723
Santa Rosa 923
Sgo. del Estero 1957
Ushuaia 2826
Viedma 923
Distancias a Caviahue por Neuquén. A Copahue sumar 17 Km.
POINTS OF THIS ZONE
Cascada Escondida
(desde Caviahue)
6
Laguna Escondida
(desde Caviahue)
3
Salto del Agrio 17/23
Cascadas del Río Agrio
(desde Caviahue)
3
Copahue/Caviahue 17
Volcán Copahue
(desde Copahue)
3
Chos Malal 167/173
Zapala 172/188
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