Qapal (Kazakh: Қапал), formerly known as Kopal (Russian: Копал), is a village in Aksu District in Jetisu Region of south-eastern Kazakhstan.

The water flows down from the mountains in small drops, so it is called in Kazakh "Tears of the Earth" or "Weeping Spring".

The first records concerning the medicinal properties of the spring were studied and collected by the great traveller and geographer Shokan Valikhanov in 1859–1865.

[citation needed] In 1848, the English travellers Thomas Witlam Atkinson and his wife Lucy visited Kapal.

He published his first article describing the spring and the nature of Kapal village in 1869 in the St. Petersburg magazine "Around the World".