Jurasi hot springs

In turn, the Jurasi hot springs, which are located in the vicinity of Putre, about 12 kilometers along the international highway that goes to Bolivia, and at 3,500 meters above sea level, with its hot and volcanic waters, outcropping in the middle of a stream, it also seduces hundreds of travelers who come there to cure their rheumatic ills.

The legend of Jurassi tells that these were the domain of an Inca princess who had the gift of not aging, since she knew the power of those waters that flowed from the earth. Beside her husbands aged and she was still fresh. He adopted a homeless boy and he grew up becoming a strong and attractive young man. The princess fell in love and they got married.

The young man noticed that his beloved was still young and he was still years old. He investigated the mystery and reached the hot spring where the princess escaped. The husband discovered the fountain of youth and immersed himself many times in it.
The princess, seeing that she also stopped over the years in her husband, spied on him day and night until she found him in the warm waters. Then he shouted: "Swear if, swear if, swear if!", Which in Aymara speech means: "boil, boil, boil!".

Then the spring boiled and her husband suffered a horrible death. The princess did not return to those baths and her youth withered at once, being reduced to mummified bones.