AVŞAR MİNERAL WATER

The first written information about Avsar mineral water is in the 3rd print of the Turk Hıfzısıhha and Tecrübi Biology magazine in 1940 written by Prof. Dr. S. Calvi who had operated the studies of mineral water and springs during Turkish era. In those writings, it is mentioned that there are Avsar fountains 4 km to Afyon. In later years, many researches and analyzes has been made about Avsar Mineral Water and reported to have superior characteristics. Dr. M. Sadettin AYGEN has stated that Avsar Mineral Water springs where the studies have been conducted is boiling with the flow of about 0.13 / sec. from a stone strung around the upstream pool in his article “Afyonkarahisar Kaplıcaları ve Maden Suları”. As well as being the source of drinking purposes, Avsar Mineral water has also the purpose of geothermal use for health cure and it is understood by the 8 caves located near the source point. The presence of two-storey caves carved into the rocks near the Avsar stream shows that Hittite and Phrygian civilizations who lived in this region used the water source for drinking and gheothermal spa for their health.