Its perfect combination is a benign climate throughout the year (with an annual average temperature
of 21° C), the excellent properties of their thermal waters and one complete infrastructure: hotels (most of them with thermal baths), excellent restaurants and varied basic services for the visitor.
For the treatments based on the use of the thermal water it is possible to be decided on those doctors with programs directed to rheumatic problems (favoring the muscular relaxation and the movement of the joints), cardiovascular, allergic and nervous, as well as to aesthetic medicine and treatments of relaxation.

The thermal water produces changes of temperature that benefit the sanguineous circulation and introduce salts and minerals in amount limited in the skin. As each treatment implies a time and temperature of the water adapted for each person, it must be indicated its permanence by a specialistic doctor
This quality of Thermal water Rio Hondo it must that the rainwater generated in the Aconquija it is accumulated in underground sheets of waters situated under the city, warming up itself to greater depth. When emerging, by faults or perforations of up to 800 meters, one nourishes of salts and minerals with small loads of electrical energy.

You can visit at this city:

_ Casino Provincial _ (Caseros St. 126) The building was inaugurated in 1943, it has a Spanish neocolonial style. Located in front of Plaza San Martin right in the center of the city, it is one of the main points of life at night. _
Church Nuestra Senora del Perpetuo Socorro _ (Sarmiento St. and San Francisco Solano St.) Main temple of Thermal water Rio Hondo. It has a neocolonial architectonic style, with a front where it is appraised an important arc of main entrance and a lateral tower with a bell tower established towards the left of the mentioned entrance.
_ Guemes Park : It is the great green lung of the city, since it is populated by numerous species of native trees. It includes several sites of interest: the Cultural and Artisan Center General San Martin (where local crafts can be acquired), a Polideportivo Municipal, a Center of Exhibitions and a Medical Center of Thermal Direction.
This last one is located in the Southeastern end of the park and offers, like most of the establishments located in the locality, therapies with thermal waters for aesthetic and medicinal applications, supervised by specialistic doctors and personal highly enabled.

WHAT CANNOT BE LOST!

* Embalse de Rio Hondo
This transcendental hydraulic work for the province was put into operation the 1st January 1968, on the course of the river Dulce. It assures the irrigated land for a vast surface extremely barren earth, at the same time that attenuates the crescents of the river, regulates the regime of its volume, provides water destined to the consumption and generates energy that supplies to the cities of Thermal water Rio Hondo, Santiago del Estero and San Miguel de Tucuman.
It has been transformed into a point of tourist attraction, since the rich fauna that the artificial lake populates (gilded, pacues, surubies and tarariras) it invites to the fishing. In addition nautical sports and navigation can be practiced, counting on several clubs and wharves. The lake has a surface that surpasses the 30,000 hectares, fed by waters of rivers Marapa, Gastona, Seco and Sali.
In the old villa of Rio Hondo, to about 15 kilometers of Thermal water Rio Hondo approximately, are the denominated "holy tracks" that according to the tradition they are the footsteps that I leave San Francisco Solano (very venerated in the whole Santiago del Estero) on a rock when it visited the locality in 1950. There, santo predicted (according to the oral tradition) the disappearance of the small village under waters, which later materialized with the construction of the dock approximately four centuries.

* Complex Yacu 'Rupaj
The thermal Spa is located on waters of the dam. Its name derives from the water which they collected in vasijas the natives who inhabited the northwest of the province influenced by the incaica culture, to that called Inti Yacu that it means "water of the Sun" or Yacu 'Rupaj that it means "hot water". When the Spanish conquerors arrived the natives knew the curativas and analgesic properties the thermal water.
In this complex they offer varied treatments as immersion baths (they act as relajantes can be made in great sinks or individual bathtubs), thermal hidromasajes (descontracturantes and antistress act like), Scottish showers (they act on the back, the column and muscles), muscular mud therapy (hydrates and clean the skin of impurities being able to be applied in the face or all the body) and massages (they are possible to be combined with any thermal treatment and musician-therapy).
* River Dulce
Important river fed by the waters that arise from the dam of Rio Hondo. It is born in the limits of the provinces of Salta and Tucuman, it crosses the Province of Santiago del Estero in southwestern direction and it culminates in the lagoon of Mar Chiquita in Province of Cordoba. Its passage by the Province of Santiago del Estero it originates an own ecosystem with great variety of bathed and streams.