Height: 1.800 m.s.n.m
Surface: 1.073 Km2
Province: Tungurahua
Location: Western Mountain Range
Population: 21.000 people.
Sector: 39.5 Km southeast of Ambato city.

Because of its group of touristic attractions and the development it has reached in this area, Baños figures with its own identity as National Tourist Heritage.  The diversity of changing climates and its peculiar geographic location contribute to the variety of landscapes and natural conditions that appear with a propitious environment for resting.

The tourist capital of Baños de Agua Santa, offers the opportunity to enter a true paradise of beauty and pleasant relax.

It´s one of the magical places of the Ecuadorian Highlands, baptized with truthful reasons as the Puerta al Dorado (Door to Paradise) and Refugio de las Cascadas (Cascade Refuge), because of its magic and endless charm, wonderful climate, thermal waters that emerge from the deepness of the TUNGURAHUA volcano; main mountain of this population; alfeñiques, orchids, thousand colored birds, traditions, faith, unequalled adventures that make the traveler enjoy the sensations that the highland mountains offer; the rivers, cascades and the Amazon jungle.

The kindness of the people of Baños is always ready to receive every visitor, Ecuadorian or foreigner that wishes to admire its splendid mountain landscapes and its cascades.  Baños has landscapes at each step for the marveled eyes of the tourist, with nice people that are immensely kind and welcoming, that seek for the tourist to feel good and enjoy the privileged beauty of Baños de Agua Santa´s landscape.

This small and marvelous city, located 165km. south of the capital, Quito, is located between the Highlands and the Jungle, in the southwestern part of Tungurahua province, letting people enjoy a warm and humid climate in short distances of the Amazon, as well as the incredible landscapes with snow, as those of the TUNGURAHUA.

Baños is the town with the largest tourist inflow in the Tungurahua province, since it´s one of the most touristic points.