[1] The hot springs are located on the Ishaka–Kagamba Road, in Sheema County, in Sheema District, Western Uganda, approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) by road southeast of the town of Kitagata, one of the urban centers in the district, and approximately 62 kilometres (39 mi) by road west of Mbarara, the largest city in the sub-region.

The other spring is believed to have healing powers and is known as Mulago, after Uganda's largest National Referral Hospital.

Semi-naked men and women bathe in the warm waters of Kitagata Mulago, the spring believed to possess healing powers, sometimes as many as 200 in a day.

The scenery is breath-taking with conical hills and inselbergs characterized with beautiful green vegetation of trees and grass.

[6] Residents of Kitagata are concerned that the construction of the nearby Kagamba-Ishaka Road may harm the hot springs by exposing them to flooding.