Ubinas (5675 m a.s.l.) is known as the most active volcano in southern Peru during historical times, with 23 minor eruptive or intense fumarolic crises since 1550. Due to its intense explosive recurrence and to the high proximity of the homonymous village (4000 inhabitants), only 6 km far away from the summit crater, Ubinas appears as one of the highest priority in volcano monitoring in southern Peru. The purpose of this survey has been (1) in a first step to evidence the geochemical characteristics of the hot springs located around the volcano in order to define (2) in a second step an appropriate fluid geochemical monitoring program. (1) The analysis of the waters collected around the volcano displays evident geochemical trends that can be interpreted as mixing processes between 3 end-members: fresh meteoric waters, magmatic fluids, sometimes interacting with a deep chloride reservoir....