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The sentence "...the most biodiverse place on the Earth..." had been used everytime somebody tryed to explain what the Osa Peninsula is . Who gave to the Osa this definition was The National Geographic magazine, after have registered many scientific investigation inCosta Rica and specially in this area.

In this Last Eden of less than 2000 square kilometres, that offer environment so different like: sandy beaches and rainforest, rivers and lagoons, open ocean islands and marsland palm forest, open prairies and the widest mangrove complex of Central America, hundred of bothanics, entomologists, herpetologists and all the specialized biologists of the world, find here material for their investigations and challenges in the registration of some astonishing new specie everyday.

So what means to achieve one Property here? Is not just becaming the owner of a piece of land and some trees on it, but is becaming the caretaker of a piece of the world's natural heritage. Oceanfront properties are visited several time per year by nesting Sea turtles, in the forests properties, hundred of different kind of orchids grow and flower thanks to thousand of insect and colibri that pollinate them, in the same streets of Puerto Jimenez, the main town of the Osa, flocks of scarlet macaws feed on the trees that grow in the gardens of the houses or in the beach front properties.

We, at The Osa Peninsula Properties, with few other Costa Rica Real Estate agencies, are strongly concerned about a too fast growing of the area without a common feeling of protection of the environment amongst the owners of the properties still to develop, and, always, we try to offer the most delicated ones to peoples interested mainly in conservation, rather than a huge concrete resort development.

The oceanfront property that appear in this

picturea is part of Private Wildlife Refuge that

only a couple of months ago had ben divided

in 3 acres lots, each one with a beach front

of 40 to 50 meters, and we are the sole

Costa RIca Real Estate agency to manage

this sale.

Several of the lots have a back access from

a small river that flow across mangroves and

beach dunes, making each lot

a " Double Waterfront Property"!! .

Every lot has the permission for to build

residential units or tourism facility up

to 40 guests, a very high rate for this area!

We are thinking in an organic development

of the whole group of lots, trying to mantain the environment the more well preserved is possible ( a lot of sea turtles nest on this beach! ), and choosing construction styles and building techniques compatibles amongst the different projects and with the environment.

Possibles projects for this unique oceanfront property range from luxury residential units for sale or rent, beachfront lodges, diving-fishing-surfing centers, seakyaking-sailing centers, or any other tourism related facility, that could be available for the owners of the other hotels-lodges in the area. Similar, not equal!, oceanfront properties in other part of Costa Rica, could cost 4-5 times more than this ones located in "...the best beach of Costa RIca..." Ref. OF0506 / PL- 01

Ask for the price of the available lots.

More information about this unique oceanfront property at: http://www.platanaresbeach.weworthweb.com

Tourism Impact and Development of a Natural Heritage

After years working in this business, one of the most misterious things still was to try to know where the phantomatic 50 metres public zone along the beach, is beginning.

We had to ask to so many people in the governamental institutions for to obtain an answer that we don't remember how many, and how many different interpretation about the issue we heard.

But now we saw the light, we found one of the two or three people that are doing the work of running up and down for the coast of this country, yes I know, is a bad job, but someone has to do it, and fixing the 50 metres public zone.

Now we want to share this gem of knowledge with our Guests and Friends, hoping that this will help to avoid misunderstanding at the moment of the purchase of a Beachfront Property.

The following design illustrated, in a schematical way, the principle of the location of the 50 metres pubblic zone starting point, remember that without an appropriate tools that can fix the zero point of the tide level, the empirical use of this scheme, can give you just a rough idea about the position of the pubblic zone in the soil of the beach, but is, certainly, much better that all the stories that improvised realtor of the street are telling you.

This would be just a First Help tool, just for to see if that wonderful piece of land that are selling you so cheap, could be a fully titled one or not, but this doesn't means that land included inside the Maritime Zone are impossible to own and develop, there are several rules that can apply on htis zone, and you need the advise of a person that deeply knows the issue before decide the purchase.

A more detailed explication is available HERE , and you need some more infos about General Rules About land owning and purchasing, visit this SITE

In Costa Rica the intensive agriculture ( coffe, pineapple, banana, rice, oil palm, etc.) have been the historical activity, together wit the extensive cattle breeding, and in the last century the dense rainforest that was covering almost all the country was cleared at an impressive rate per year, specially in the north-west area, the Guanacaste, where the deforestation has been so extended and complete that the same climate have been dramatically changed, transforming that area of green lush forest to the almost pre-desertic environment that you can see today, completely deprived of the species of animal that were depending from the forest consistency.

Other areas of Costa Rica had a little bit more luck, due to the distance from the centre of the civilization hub and to the local weather. The surviving virgin rainforest in the country are less than the 10% of the surface and the Osa Peninsula alone own almost half of them, making clear how important is the conservation of this natural resource.

Costa Rica Real Estate Agencies, normally offer a wide fan of possibilities, ranging from prestigious beachfront properties, or ocean front lots, to some hidden forest property, or houses facing breath-breaker tropical beaches, giving the idea that the whole country is still a complex of estate for sale.

Travelling across Costa Rica, you can see everywhere signs with the " property for sale " letters, on the fence of a piece of land that have been sold and bought, maybe three or four time in the last ten years, from the original Costarican owner to a foreigner, to another foreigner, etc., multiplying the price at each passage.

Be careful when, lured by the opportunity to buy a nice piece of land for a really cheap price, you enter in a deal with the " owner ", sometime people got " Planos Catastrados " of pieces of land that are inside another titled property and you will loose your time and your money.

In the last years the fast growth of the Real Estate business in this area, lured every kind of people to became a " land seller", and now almost every hotel and restaurant owner offer "properties", and every taxi drivers has in his dash, at least, a couple of land plans to show to some naive client, and almost none of them has the lesser idea about the rules and laws that are involved in the titling process in the different zones that compose the Peninsula. For more information about this issue, please visit

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Golfo Dulce Real Estate, and specially here, in the Osa, is still a first level business; a waterfront property here, is still the private beach of some small farmer that live there with some cattle and some land where harvest some rice and beans for the typical food, having in the same piece of land, maybe, a " backyard " rainforest property that he can sell and use the income for to up rise his standard of life making some change in the farm, in the house or for to build a simple but nice Ocean Front House to rent to tourists.

And this is the biggest challenge : to develop the area in a way that will permit to the locals to enhance their life standard without destroying the environment and the traditional farmer culture.

For this reason the local price for a beach front property here, in the Costa Rica South Pacific, is still one quarter of a similar one in the most well known, but well deprived, tourism centres of other parts of the country.

So, buying a piece of land here around, a beach lot, a deep forest farm or a waterside land, along one of the hundred rivers that flow from the Corcovado Park's mountains, is a commitment with the higher concentration of biological mass of living beings in the world, Costa Rica really welcomes you if you understand this important issue and will act with the aim of integrate your Dream House or Lodge in this environment, conserving it for the new generations.