18/05/2021
For sale :
42 hectares (97.5 acres)
Buena Vista ( Talamanca )
This property has 2 homes and 8 different pastures planted with several hundred fruit trees and a variety of hundreds of hardwood trees. It could be utilized as a community retreat or by a few families. The first home is a Tico style home with three bedrooms (two are 7’x10’ and 8’x10). There is a single and full-size bunk bed and this home is outfitted with beds to sleep 8 people. There is newly constructed large porch (16’x18’) and a smaller front porch (5’x10’). The kitchen area (10x18) has 3 large tables, a gas stove, and various shelves. The lower level is fully fenced in and broken into 4 large fenced in pens and a workshop area with an ample supply of building wood. There is constant running water direct to the sink and the shower which has been tested and approved for drinking. The water on this property is the watershed and being the highest source is the purest. I has potential to be sold as bottled water. I have been told by Bribri elders that many years ago stone aqueducts were constructed to transport the water in this area to local indigenous villages 4 miles away. I assume this water has medicinal properties. The toilet is in an outhouse building. Near the first home is a garden plot with Yampi, pacific spinach. The following medicinal or teas, lemon grass, nettle, hombre grande, turmeric, aloe, and prickly pear are by this home. Including the following fruit trees: Water apples, cocoa, lemon, papaya, biriba, avocado, durian, noni, pineapple, bananas, plantain, guava, guava machete, casaba, coco, pejibaye, guanabana, breadfruit, star fruit, etc. The second house is designed as a community kitchen with 11 large board windows, 5 bared and screened in upper windows for constant ventilation and double swinging front doors that are 2 inches thick. This building was designed to securely hold an ATV. It is a six-sided building (18’x24’) made from local Laurel with a Cashaw for major posts and as the foundation on cement posts. There is a single bunkbed and three 4x8 platforms that can be used for 3 additional full-size beds or as tent platforms. There are built in counters, a two- burner gas stove, and lots of wall shelves. There is one table and 7 home-aid wooden bench style chairs. There is a rain catch system for the shower and kitchen water. The upper level is an open Gazebo 20’x24’ with two large built in benches. There is an rather large assortment of dried Laurel lumber included: 4x4”s, 1”x12” planks, 2x6”, etc. The view from the Gazebo is the surrounding rainforest, a large fruit tree pasture with several of each of the following: Jack fruit, guanabana, zapote, bread fruit, lemons, sour lemons (for fresco) several dozen pineapples, bananas, araza, avocados and a few pitanga, cinnamon, etc. All the other pastures except one are on the same side of the property as the community kitchen and the nearby road that leads to Carbon 2 toward Cahuita. The other fruit pastures include many of the same fruits mentioned along with Mangosteen and Kepel fruit. There is a citrus valley that includes: Velicina Oranges, Mandarin Oranges, Pina Oranges, Grapefruit, Seedless lime, Tangerine. Other notable trees include Buddha Belly Bamboo, Mountain Almond, a few hundred Laurel trees and several Cashew. The 350 hardwoods were planted in 2017 in 3 lots. They include Roble Sabana, 60 Neispero, Caboa, 25 Cedro Margo, Espavel, 50 Teak, Roble Coral, Ron Ron.
Bordering the property is the Buena Vista school and a huge track of land owned by the Biological Corridor. The school is a newly constructed building with solar power and a home for the teacher. I have used my cell phone or mobile Wifi for internet with my laptop at the high points on the property. A satellite dish with solar panels is a feasible option for getting Wifi at both home locations. There are a few different sizable waterfalls on the property, the largest is 40 feet high. There is abundant rainforest wildlife; howler monkeys, white faced monkeys, sloths, parrots, and toucans. Lately, there has been a pair of slatey-tailed Trogon near the home and I have spotted the great anteater in the past. It is truly a peaceful respite from the world and that is part of the charm of living remotely in the rainforest. One could outfit both homes with Solar power. Most of the neighbors use quads (ATV), 4x4 vehicles or horses. One must cross four rivers and one passes by the 100-foot Volio waterfalls, if coming up from Bribri. One can gain access from Hone Creek on Carbon 1, past the zip line. The cut road goes to my property line near the house of Delbert and from their it is only accessible by foot or horse. The road in Bribri usually has a bulldozer come every 5 years or so. It is not in good shape right now and depends on the amount of rain received, but when it is good a 4x4 vehicle can drive up to Buena Vista school and to the front doorstep of the six sided house/ gazebo.
