Sale Price:   $965,000  

Location: La Guácima, Alajuela

Land extension: 13,532.08 m2

Construction area:  618 m2 

5 bedrooms

8 bathrooms

Swimming pool

Party ranch

Three ponds

Well and river

Membership to Los Reyes Golf Course and Country Club

 Video: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfpaIHO-Psk

Pay for land and house at a fraction of its cost:  13.532.08 sq. meters at $80 per meter equals $1,082,500 just for the land. Smaller parcels in the neighborhood asking prices are $80 – $100 per sq. meter and $200 - $300 at neighboring Los Reyes.  The property is suitable also for development and subdivision in smaller lots.

Large hacienda style house of 618 square meters (6652 square feet) with lots of quality wood, much of it hand carved and including the following:

•    Price includes a membership share in Los Reyes Golf Club about a kilometer away.

•    Five bedrooms each with a full bath, master suite has large walk-in closet and custom stained glass window between bedroom and bath, separate tub and shower, bidet, double sink, all made of polished coral. Second bathtub in another bathroom.  

•    Library with built in desk and two solid walls of custom wooden shelves and cabinets.

•    Dining room with chandelier and views of a parakeet aviary and fountain.

•    Modern kitchen with new granite counter tops, island with new Kitchen Aid professional cooktop, hood, and stainless steel sink, cabinets galore, Kitchen Aid dishwasher, Kitchen Aid oven, LG fridge with icemaker. Glass enclosed storage shelves in hall adjacent to kitchen.

•    Covered back patio with large bar, granite top, bar stools, wine cooler.

•    Front patio, planter box and hand carved front door.

•    TV room with built in TV table and shelves,

•    Second floor large room with pool table, two office spaces with desks and shelving, southerly exposure over chicken and duck yard backed by trees with beautiful view of mountains, westerly balcony overlooking butterfly palms loaded with about 50 orchids above koi pond.

•    Large rancho (pool house), which has seated up to a 200 people, adjacent to a 20 meter (60 feet) long artistically tiled lap pool. Changing room, half bath, outside shower.

•    Dozens of fruit trees, flowering plants, sprawling lawns.

•    2 walk-in aviaries. 

•    3 small ponds, the largest of which houses a few dozen large koi.

•    2 sitting areas among trees for solitude. 

•    Brick pathway through lush flowering vine arches. 

•    Over 100 orchids of different species growing in trees.

•    Gazebo on a hill for sunset watching.

•    Southern property line is the river Rio Segundo.

•    Enclosed tool storage “bodega” with water heater, water cistern and spare tools.

•    Two-car garage with built-in shelves, tractor/mower, golf cart and electric charger.

•    Covered carport.

•    Entire property enclosed with secure double reinforced fencing topped with razor wire.

•    Alarm system, cable, internet and wi-fi ready

•    Ceiling fans throughout the house.

•    Laundry room with large sink, washer and dryer.

•    Small horse corral.

•    Hen house.

•    Deep well (123meters). Also connection to municipal water system AYA.

•    Automatic irrigation system.

•    Organic composting set up.

TREES WITH EDIBLE FRUITS OR MEDICINAL LEAVES on the finca (1.35 hectares, just under 4 acres). 

Aguacate (avocado)  1

Banano 6

Blackwood (leaves) 2

Breadfruit/nut  1

Carambola (starfruit) 1

Cas 5

Cocos (coconuts) 2

Durazno (tropical peach) 1

Guaba 1

Guanabana 1

Guayaba (guava) 3

Guayaba de Peru (Peruvian guava) 1

Higos (figs) 2 small ones. 

Jabuticaba (Brazilian grape)  1

Jackfruit 1

Jocote 1

Kas  3

Lemongrass

Limones (limes, three different kinds)  6

Mandarinas  (tangerines) 4

Mango 3

Manzana de agua (water apples)  2

Moringa   (leaves) 2

Nancie  1

Naranjas (oranges, sweet and tart) 4

Noni  1

Pejiballe (palm fruit) 1

Pitahaya (dragon fruit) 1

Pitanga (Surinam cherry) 1

Pomelo 1

Sarangundi (leaves) 2

Toronja (grapefruit) 2

Birds of La Guácima

Seen on the farm since July, 2003 including Los Reyes golf course.

1)      Acorn woodpecker

2)      Baltimore Oriole  

3)      Bananaquit

4)      Black headed Euphonia

5)      Band tailed pigeon

6)      Bank swallow

7)      Belted kingfisher

8)      Black phoebe

9)      Black vulture

10)    Blue and white swallow

11)    Blue gray tanager

12)    Blue grosbeak

13)    Broad billed flycatcher

14)    Brown Jay

15)    Buff throated saltator

16)    Buffy browed partridge

17)    Cattle egret

18)    Clay colored robin

19)    Common nightjar

20)    Common tody flycatcher

21)    Crested caracara

22)    Eye ringed flatbill

23)    Fiery billed aracari (small toucan)

24)    Garden emerald hummingbird

25)    Grayish saltater

26)    Great Egret

27)    Great kiskadee

28)    Great tailed grackle

29)    Green crowned brilliant hummingbird

30)    Groove billed ani

31)    Hoffmann’s woodpecker

32)    House sparrow

33)    House wren

34)    Inca Dove

35)    Keel billed toucan

36)    King vulture

37)    Masked tityra

38)    Mealy parrot

39)    Montezuma oropendola

40)    Muscovy ducks

41)    Nightingale wren

42)    Northern harrier

43)    Northern Parula

44)    Olive sparrow

45)    Orchard Oriole

46)    Pigmy owl

47)    Plain wren

48)    Red billed pigeon

49)    Red fronted parrot

50)    Red lored parrot

51)    Rufus and white wren

52)    Rufus capped warbler

53)    Rufous collared sparrow

54)    Rufous naped wren

55)    Rufous necked wood rail

56)    Rufous  tailed hummingbird

57)    Silver fronted tapaculo

58)    Snowy cotinga

59)    Social flycatcher

60)    Sotted woodcreeper

61)    Sulpher bellied flycatcher

62)    Squirrel cuckoo

63)    Tennessee warbler

64)    Tiger breasted heron

65)    Tropical kingbird

66)    Turkey vulture

67)    Violacious trogon

68)    Western kingbird

69)    Western wood peewee

70)    White collared swift

71)    White throated magpie jay

72)    White winged dove

73)    Wood stork

74)    Yellow bellied elaenia