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Located one
and a half hours from the international airport
of La Romana,
in the foothills of the northeastern mountains, fifteen miles from the north
coast, in the province
of El Seybo,
the finca enjoys a microclimate favorable to the
production of year-round pasture. The Rio Chavon , one of the most
important rivers in the country, traverses the finca.
Two tributaries of the Chavon, Chavoncito
and Arroyon, also flow through the finca. Additionally, there are dozens of springs and
small creeks, feeding their crystalline waters into these major arteries. The
finca is approximately eleven hundred and
twenty-five acres (7,200 tareas), cross-fenced into
over forty pastures, almost all of it with new wire and live posts; and each
pasture has live water. Our vet, who has forty years experience on farms all
over the Dominican
Republic, tells us this is the
best-watered farm on the island. About half the land is flat to gently
rolling; the other half is hilly, with none too steep to graze. The grass
grows so fast, cattle can often be rotated back to a grazed pasture after
thirty days.
There is housing
for four families of permanent workers, as well as an owner’s house,
which is unfinished but livable. There is a state-of-the-art set of working
corrals and chutes and a milking parlor, in concrete and steel, under a steel
roof. There is a quarry of excellent road-building material on the property,
which we use to maintain our roads and which is an additional source of
income since none of the neighboring farms have comparable material.
There is
sunshine and rain in abundance, often on the same day. Crystal clear mountain
streams abound in potential hydroelectric energy as well as waterfalls and
swimming holes. Trade winds keep even the hottest days in the low eighties.
There are no poisonous snakes or dangerous animals of any kind. There are no
taxes. And all around, there is the overwhelming greenness of the grass.
Sale price of $2,950,000 U.S. includes all livestock and
equipment.
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