The Baths were discovered a few years before 1789 due to an incident and fortuito.Dichas Spa with the main body adjacent land, remained in power Opazo family for over a century.
in 1905 made the exploitation of the Baths of Panimavida three Linares, whose descendants to Don Carlos Ibañez del Campo.Por initiative del Campo Bustamante brothers year 1906 establishing Panimavida Commune, designating as Mayor Don Francisco Donoso.
The direction of the Spa was led by Carlos Bustamante Field until 1912 to be acquired the Spa, the hotel and the surrounding land by a large industrial entity called "Society of wines from Chile" and one of its main promoters was the politician and Senator Don Pedro Correa Ibañez, also owner of Viña San Pedro.
Around 1926, Panimavida was a small village that covered only the spa facilities, a school and the railway station. Its low population was reduced to the employees of the bathrooms, which were closed during the winter, regaining movement during the summer. He was head of the commune to the January 8, 1923 , when he decreed the transfer to the village of Colbun.
Today Panimavida Hot Springs Hotel have a structure that during the last decade to fallen sharply in relation to what was in the past to influence the progress of pueblo.Actualmente hope that with the new owners managed to recover what was once home to the commune and the region, becoming a center of community development.
The concentration of the population has increased noticeably thus affecting its improvement and advancement as a people, also remain important fruit-growing sector development.
Panimavida name derives from Mapudungun (Mapuche language) "Pafiemavida"
you want to say "Leon hill" which existed around the year 1877 in the estate and they made enough damage in cattle.
