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Tsqaltubo

Imereti, Georgia · Asia

About Tsqaltubo

Tsqaltubo is worth a stop: 20 minutes from Kutaisi, 5km from Prometheus Cave.

Tsqaltubo is a town located in Imereti, Georgia. With a population of 7,104, it is an important destination in Asia.

On a road trip, Tsqaltubo sits in Georgia, where you drive on the right. It's in the Asia/Tbilisi time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Tsqaltubo to your route.

About Tsqaltubo

Tskaltubo (Georgian: წყალტუბოს მუნიციპალიტეტი) is a district of Georgia, in the region of Imereti. Its main town is Tskaltubo. Tskaltubo Municipality is a self-governing unit in the Imereti region. People still lived on its territory during the Stone Age, which is confirmed by the numerous settlements discovered

Read more during the excavations. The earliest weapon in the Caucasus is found in the White Cave - a copper arrowhead dating back to the 4th-5th millennium BC. It became an official balneological resort in 1920, and was granted the status of a city in 1953. Located in the central part of Imereti. The municipality is bordered by the city of Kutaisi to the east, Samtredia and Khoni to the west, and Baghdati and Vani to the south. The defining physical-geographical factor of the relief is the deep oval shape of the depression with the appearance of hollow mineral springs, which are bordered on each side by mountain passes. The main forms of relief are lowland-hilly. Rivers flow in the territory of Tskaltubo: Gubistskali, Tskaltubo. There are 48 settlements in Tskaltubo: 1 city, 47 villages.

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Tsqaltubo is located in Imereti, Georgia, Asia. The coordinates are 42.3286 latitude, 42.5981 longitude.

What is the population of Tsqaltubo?

Tsqaltubo has a population of approximately 7,104 people, making it a town in Georgia.

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Quick Information

Population
7,104
Continent
Asia
Country
Georgia
Region
Imereti
Timezone
Asia/Tbilisi
Coordinates
42.3286, 42.5981

Emergency & Services

Essential numbers in Georgia

Police
112
Ambulance
112
Fire
112
Driving side
right
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Worth the detour from Tsqaltubo

5 notable places within an hour's drive.

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Tskaltubo Abandoned Sanatoriums

A Soviet spa town of grand radon-bath sanatoriums built between the 1950s and 70s, now mostly derelict with trees growing through colonnaded halls. Stalin's private bathhouse survives among them.

0 km · about 5 min drive

natural wonder

Prometheus Cave

Georgia's showpiece cave, 11km long with six of 22 halls open on a 1,800m lit walkway past stalactite curtains and an underground river you can leave by boat.

5 km · about 10 min drive

natural wonder

Martvili Canyon

A 2.4km limestone gorge on the Abasha River where deep green water runs between walls only 5-10m apart, crossed by walkways and paddled by short inflatable-boat trips. Dinosaur-era fossil bones were found in the rock here.

23 km · about 25 min drive

natural wonder

Katskhi Pillar

A 40 m limestone monolith crowned by a tiny medieval monastery, rising surreally from the Imereti hills near Chiatura: one of Georgia's strangest roadside wonders.

51 km · about 60 min drive

photogenic

Chiatura Cable Cars

A Soviet manganese-mining town where aerial cableways strung above the Qvirila gorge in 1954 carried workers up the cliffs. The rusting originals were retired in 2021 and replaced by modern gondolas on the same lines.

56 km · about 65 min drive

Driving roads near Tsqaltubo

  • 78 kmGoderdzi Pass2,025 m pass on the old Batumi–Akhaltsikhe road through the green Adjarian mountains, linking subtropical coast to volcanic highlands past timber villages and a fledgling ski resort.

Nearby Destinations

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Kutaisi

🇬🇪 Georgia

10 km awayPop. 135,201

Khoni

🇬🇪 Georgia

14 km awayPop. 7,651

Martvili

🇬🇪 Georgia

20 km awayPop. 3,966

Saq’ulia

🇬🇪 Georgia

22 km awayPop. 1,869

Vani

🇬🇪 Georgia

28 km awayPop. 3,151

Samtredia

🇬🇪 Georgia

29 km awayPop. 20,633

Tqibuli

🇬🇪 Georgia

33 km awayPop. 7,957

Baghdati

🇬🇪 Georgia

34 km awayPop. 2,412

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