Su'ao Cold Spring
Coordinates: 24°35′48″N 121°51′04″E / 24.596731°N 121.850984°E
Inside the main Su'ao Cold Spring area. What looks like a hole below the white roof in the center of the picture is one of the swimming pools filled with water of the cold spring
Su'ao Cold Spring (Chinese: 蘇澳冷泉) is a cold spring located in Su'ao, Yilan County, Taiwan.
Su'ao Cold Spring has a spring water temperature of 22 °C.[1] It is both bathable and drinkable, and it has a pH of 5.5. According to Japanese researchers, the cold spring contains carbonic ion concentrations of 68ppm, the highest of all springs in Taiwan. Its sodium ion concentrations were 14.3ppm and calcium ion 10.7ppm. Su'ao Cold Spring is the only calcium hydroxy carbonic spring in Taiwan. Su'ao Cold Spring contains a generous volume of carbon dioxide, which was in the past used to produce Ramune (Natural soda water).
A keg filled with the Su'ao Cold Spring water (inside the main Su'ao Cold Spring area)
Transportation
- Train: TRA Yilan Line to Su'ao Station is approximately 300m.
- Highway: Tai 2 from Taipei, Tai 9 both south from Hualien, north from Taipei.
- Freeway: Freeway number 5
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