Curubandé · Liberia · Guanacaste · Costa Rica
Seventeen private estate lots in the Guanacaste dry forest, each over 5,000 m², joined by a white-gravel road in the old Liberia tradition.
The land
With impermeable coverage capped at 10%, a home here sits inside its land instead of filling it. The other nine tenths is yours for an orchard, a kitchen garden, a few animals, or simply the trees that were here first.
Specimen · Zygophyllaceae
Guaiacum sanctum
One of the hardest, densest woods in the world. It is under a total logging ban in Costa Rica and listed under CITES. It grows only in tropical dry forest, and individual trees can live for centuries.
Specimen · Fabaceae
Dalbergia retusa
A Pacific dry-forest rosewood prized for its deep red and black grain, now listed as Critically Endangered. Many of them stand on the property.
What this means for owners
Protected trees stay. Homes are sited to work with them, which is how the forest keeps its character from lot to lot.
Liberia earned the name La Ciudad Blanca from the white gravel of its early streets and its whitewashed houses. La Arboleda's private road follows that tradition.
Water and electricity are available to the project, so you start with the essentials in place.
A quebrada runs along several lots on the western and southern side of the property. Protection setbacks apply along its banks.
Master site plan
Tap any lot to see its size and features. Lot areas are taken from the registered survey.
Two-lot offer Buy two lots and take $10,000 off your second.
Illustrative plan drawn from the registered survey. Tree positions are artistic and do not mark individual Guayacán Real or cocobolo trees. Not for construction. Download the site plan.
What you could build
Impermeable coverage, meaning roofs, pools, patios and paved surfaces, is limited to 10% of each lot, which is about 500 m² on a 5,000 m² lot. These concepts show what fits inside that limit. Gravel drives, garden beds and vineyards stay permeable.
Large family home
A full family home with a serious growing space beside it. Room for four bedrooms, a big kitchen and a greenhouse that keeps the table supplied all year.
500 m² of about 500 m² allowed on a 5,000 m² lot
Working smallholding
A farmhouse with a barn for goats or chickens, a greenhouse, a tool shed and a rain cistern. Built for people who want to grow and raise their own food.
470 m² of about 500 m² allowed on a 5,000 m² lot
Multi-generation living
A main house and a separate guest casita for family visits, with a pool and a shaded carport. Private space for everyone on one lot.
450 m² of about 500 m² allowed on a 5,000 m² lot
Yoga, pool and garden
A calm home with an open-air yoga shala in the trees, a plunge pool, an outdoor sauna and a greenhouse for herbs and greens.
400 m² of about 500 m² allowed on a 5,000 m² lot
Small footprint, big land
A compact cabin with a workshop, a solar carport, a rain cistern and a chicken coop. Half the allowed coverage, with the rest of the land given to a food forest.
250 m² of about 500 m² allowed on a 5,000 m² lot
Two homes, one estate
Two 150 m² homes facing each other across a large pool, with a pickleball court and a small vineyard. Ideal for two families, or a home and a guest house.
520 m², more than the 500 m² allowed on a 5,000 m² lot. Fits Lots 4, 9, 10 and 11, which are over 5,200 m².
AI concept renderings for inspiration, not designs for a specific lot or photos of the property. Details in the images may differ from the size lists. Building sizes are examples. Your architect and the Municipality of Liberia confirm what can be built on each lot.
Field guide
Twelve trees that belong to this landscape. Some shade your house, some feed you, and some fence your land for free. Plant these first and the wildlife follows.
Enterolobium cyclocarpum
Guanacaste tree (Elephant ear tree) · Fabaceae
Photo: Tizianok, CC BY-SA 3.0
Guaiacum sanctum
Lignum vitae (Holywood) · Zygophyllaceae
Dalbergia retusa
Cocobolo rosewood · Fabaceae
Photo: Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 us
Pachira quinata
Pochote (Spiny cedar) · Malvaceae
Handroanthus ochraceus (syn. Tabebuia ochracea)
Yellow trumpet tree · Bignoniaceae
Photo: Welliton Fonseca, CC BY-SA 3.0
Tabebuia rosea
Pink trumpet tree (Pink poui) · Bignoniaceae
Photo: Rodtico21, CC BY-SA 4.0
Gliricidia sepium
Gliricidia (Quickstick) · Fabaceae
Photo: Alejandro Bayer Tamayo from Armenia, Colombia, CC BY-SA 2.0
Bursera simaruba
Gumbo limbo (Naked Indian) · Burseraceae
Photo: Everglades NPS from Homestead, Florida, United States, Public domain
Ceiba pentandra
Kapok tree (Silk cotton tree) · Malvaceae
Photo: Mike Ostrowski, CC BY-SA 4.0
Spondias mombin
Hog plum (Yellow mombin) · Anacardiaceae
Photo: Filo gèn', CC BY-SA 4.0
Byrsonima crassifolia
Nance (Golden spoon) · Malpighiaceae
Photo: Franz Xaver, CC BY-SA 3.0
Guazuma ulmifolia
West Indian elm · Malvaceae
Photo: Franz Xaver, CC BY-SA 3.0
Reference photos of each species from Wikimedia Commons, not photos of the property. Facts from Wikipedia, the Área de Conservación Guanacaste and CITES.
Homestead ideas
With 90% of each lot left as open ground, there is room for a real homestead. A few ideas that suit this climate.
Guanacaste has a long dry season. Roof gutters feeding a cistern let you bank rainy-season water for the garden in the dry months.
Costa Rica allows homes to generate their own solar power and connect to the grid. A solar carport or barn roof counts toward coverage you are already using.
Madero negro, pochote and indio desnudo grow from cut posts. A living fence gives shade, fodder and a wildlife corridor instead of rusting wire.
Layer native fruit like nance and jobo with mango, citrus and plantain, then herbs and ground cover underneath. It feeds you and shades the soil.
Costa Rica has native stingless bees that are gentle to keep and pollinate the garden. A few boxes under the eaves is a good first project.
Compost kitchen scraps, send filtered shower and sink water to fruit trees, and mulch heavily. Every liter kept in the soil matters in April.
Planned for owners
Beyond each private lot, La Arboleda plans a few shared things that make homesteading easier together.
A common orchard of native and tropical fruit trees that every owner can harvest from, planted and cared for together.
A shared collection of seeds and cuttings from the property, so owners can swap what grows well here and start new plants for free.
Shared larger tools, a workbench and storage, so each lot does not need its own of everything.
The protected strip along the quebrada is replanted with native dry forest trees to shade the water, hold the banks and link habitat for wildlife.
Planned amenities. Final design, location and timing to be confirmed.
Growing year
Guanacaste has two seasons: a long dry season, usually December to April, and a rainy season from about May to November. Timing is everything here.
Dry season. Water young trees deeply, mulch thick, harvest. Roble de sabana flowers.
Dry season. Prune fruit trees, collect seeds, plan the rainy-season garden.
Hottest and driest. Protect soil with mulch. Corteza amarilla blooms. Clean gutters and tanks.
Late dry season. Prepare beds and planting holes, start seedlings in shade, check cisterns.
Rains usually begin. Plant trees, living fence posts and the main garden once the soil is moist.
Rainy season. Keep planting trees and cover crops. Rain tanks fill.
Veranillo de San Juan, a short drier spell, is common. Water new plantings if it runs long.
Rains return. Second planting of beans, squash and greens.
Often the wettest stretch. Watch drainage and erosion on slopes and along the creek.
Heavy rains. Last good window to plant trees so roots settle before the dry season.
Rains taper off. Harvest, mulch and top up water storage before the dry months.
Winds pick up and the dry season starts. Guanacaste trees drop their leaves. Switch on drip irrigation.
A general guide. Seasons shift from year to year, so plant by the rain, not the date.
New owners
A simple plan for the first three months after you buy, so you start building and planting in the right order.
Days 1 to 30
Days 31 to 60
Days 61 to 90
General guidance, not legal advice. Your attorney, architect and the municipality confirm the steps for your purchase and design.
Location
Curubandé sits on the road from Liberia toward Rincón de la Vieja National Park, in the cooler, greener foothills of Guanacaste. You are close to Liberia's shops and services and to Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport, with the beaches of the Gold Coast within reach for a day out.
Questions
Fifteen of the seventeen lots are between 5,001 and 5,112 m² (about 1.24 to 1.26 acres). Lot 9 is 5,343 m² (1.32 acres) and Lot 4, the largest, is 6,435 m² (1.59 acres). Every area comes from the registered survey.
Impermeable coverage, meaning roofs, patios and paved surfaces, is limited to 10% of each lot. On a 5,000 m² lot that is about 500 m². Your architect and the municipality confirm the details for your design.
Yes. Water and electricity are available to the project. Ask us for the details on connection for the lot you are interested in.
Guayacán Real and cocobolo are protected species in Costa Rica and are not cut. Homes are placed to work around them. We can walk each lot with you so you can see where the open ground is.
Yes. Foreigners can own titled property in Costa Rica with the same rights as citizens. We recommend working with an independent Costa Rican attorney for the title study and closing.
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