Los Baños del Inca District

Los Baños del Inca
District
Thermal springs in the town of Los Baños del Inca
Country	Peru
Region	Cajamarca
Province	Cajamarca
Founded	September 7, 1959
Capital	Los Baños del Inca
Government
• Mayor	Santos Julio Davila Silva
Area
• Total	276.4 km^2 (106.7 sq mi)
Elevation	2,667 m (8,750 ft)
Population (2005 census)
• Total	31,764
• Density	110/km^2 (300/sq mi)
Time zone	PET (UTC-5)
UBIGEO	060108

Los Baños del Inca District is one of twelve districts of the province Cajamarca in Peru.^[1] It is centred on a spa which uses the water from thermal springs.

Near Cajamarco (Caxamalca), "at a distance of about a league farther, across the valley, might be seen columns of vapor rising up towards the heavens, indicating the place of the famous baths, much frequented by the Peruvian princes."^{[2]:166,168–169}

"Then having arrived at the place where Atahualpa was, he being in a small house which was kept for the Lord, together with other rooms, for his use when he went thither to rest and to bathe, and there was a great tank which they had built, very well made of hewn stone, and to the tank came two pipes of water, one hot and the other cold, and there the one was tempered by the other whenever the Lord or his wives wished to bathe, and no other person dared to enter the water, under penalty of death." ^[3]:29

References

1. (Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital. Retrieved April 11, 2008.
2. Prescott, W.H., 2011, The History of the Conquest of Peru, Digireads.com Publishing, ISBN 9781420941142
3. Pizzaro, P., 1571, Relation of the Discovery and Conquest of the Kingdoms of Peru, Vol. 1-2, New York: Cortes Society, RareBooksClub.com, ISBN 9781235937859

Coordinates: 7°09′49″S 78°27′44″W / 7.1637°S 78.4622°W