Green Community in Guanacaste, Costa Rica
ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT

"Pura Agua, Pura Tierra...Pura Vida! "

AN INTRODUCTION

Tierra Pacifica is a unique green community nestled in the foothills and overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the Guanacaste, Costa Rica. While discussing our overall goals for this very special 220-acre parcel, the first question we asked was “How can we develop this beautiful piece of land while adding value to the local community, maintaining the natural integrity of the land, and also maximizing the quality of life for the new owners?” Our second question was, “How do we establish and maintain a green community where the ideals we live by are shared with those we will live with?” This required slowing down for just a moment and reflecting on how we can truly live in harmony with our environment. We believe Tierra Pacifica, a Costa Rica environmental development that balances a high standard of living with innovative environment-enhancing design, is the answer to these questions.

If you have received Tierra Pacifica information, you are likely already a friend. You are someone who has been chosen because you share the ideals of those who have designed this innovative green community. You may be a surfer looking for an ideal break, or a business owner looking to simply take a break. You may be a family looking for a vacation home, or even considering making a Costa Rica environmental impact with your second home. Regardless of who you are, Tierra Pacifica is a place you would like to call home. Home, simply because when you are here, you are among friends, nature and a way of life that feels right and is right. You are in a green community in the truest sense of the word, a place where people can live out dreams of a simpler life, a more enjoyable life, a life closer to nature … something Costa Ricans call “Pura Vida.”

We welcome you to explore Tierra Pacifica, and we look forward to welcoming you into our green community.

Matthew Hayden, Founding Partner

Location

Located in the Northwestern region, the province of Guanacaste, Costa Rica and bordering beautiful Playa Junquillal (Hoon-Kial) on the Pacific Ocean, Tierra Pacifica is at the heart of the region’s natural wealth. Home to one of the richest biodiversity densities on the planet, the region of Guanacaste, Costa Rica offers vast swaths of national parks, forests, volcanoes, hiking trails, pristine beaches with warm water and an unparalleled population of flora and fauna. Tierra Pacifica, in particular, offers you a green community right in the ecological heart land.

Nestled on a graduated plateau, this Costa Rica environmental planned community encompasses 220 acres with several distinct natural boundaries, including the critical wetlands and the tidal estuary forming the mouth of the Rio Nandamojo, the foothills of the surrounding Vista Del Mar Mountain Range and the white and black sand beaches of Junquillal. The natural habitat consists of golden rolling hills during the summer (December through May) and lush tropical forest during the winter (June through November), offering residents two distinct seasons, each teaming with biological diversity so common in Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

When you enter our green community you enter a domain of nature, where plants dance in breeze-swept hills, the ocean sparkles in the sunlight and exotic scents help to relax stress-wrought thought. Roads follow natural sweeping terrain, homes peak out from amidst clusters of tropical plants, sea air reinvigorates

Vision

The vision of Tierra Pacifica echoes the land, the people and the spirit of Costa Rica. It is a vision that seeks to enhance rather than disrupt and to simplify rather than complicate. Our desire is to preserve a way of life and a natural environment that is dear to our hearts through sound, ecologically responsible development practices, while ensuring that community members maintain a superior standard of living.

Spearheaded and conceived by some of the leaders in Costa Rica environmental development, Tierra Pacifica is Costa Rica’s premier residential “green community” that employs the most innovative approaches to sustainable development consistent with the local climate.

Unique Enviromental Design Features

We consider things normally neglected among the most important, like retaining 99% of the existing trees to create a nature corridor, thus ensuring that a troop of howler monkeys will likely pass by your door or a flock of parrots will continue roosting in your back yard. Or, being the first development in Latin America to design surface and storm water management systems to clean, retain, and absorb precious water on site, recharging the local aquifer. Tierra Pacifica is one of the first significant Costa Rica environmental communities in Latin America with an on-site conservation nursery, landscaping plan and habitat restoration program to protect and improve soil quality, regenerate native flora, and increase the health and diversity of resident fauna.

Architecture and Design

Throughout the Guanacaste, Costa Rica environmental green community of Tierra Pacifica, buildings will be crafted from exquisite natural materials and classic design techniques will draw extensively from Spanish architecture - clearly evident in the design of our 5,000 square-foot community center known as “Club Arbol.”

The design of our community draws from the expertise of many seasoned professionals whose collective goal is to make a difference by setting and defining the standard in ecologically responsible residential design while respecting local needs and conditions. So you'll find that in Guanacaste, Costa Rica environmental planning is the cornerstone of their work for our green community. As the years pass we will undoubtedly enjoy how these “Creative Minds” established a foundation and standard of excellence in both community design and a lifestyle that can only be described as “Pura Vida.”