Indian Rock — Costa Ballena Highlands · La Alfombra, Tinamaste
Lot 4 · Costa Ballena Highlands · La Alfombra, Tinamaste

Indian Rock

Rooted in the highlands. Open to the sea.

3,982 m²
0.98 acre
700 m
elevation
25 min
to Dominical
Cedro
forest + concession
₡52,000,000 ≈ $114,000 · approximate at current rate ~₡455, as of 30 June 2026WhatsApp inquiryView the land map
Highland sunset, the Pacific below · real photo — drone reel to follow
The parcel

A highland parcel of just under one acre, set in mature cedro forest at roughly 700 metres — cool air, birdsong, and the quiet that only elevation gives you.

It sits about twenty-five minutes up from Dominical on the Costa Ballena coast. This is mountain land with the sea in the distance, not the shoreline itself — and all the better for it.

The signature

A spiral carved before the conquest.

On a boulder set into the land, a pre-Columbian petroglyph spirals inward — the same curl the Pacific draws as the humpbacks pass the Whale Coast each season. It is the kind of thing you do not buy. You become its steward.

We made it the heart of this brand: ancient story, living coast, and the precision of how we map the ground beneath it.

Heritage note — Costa Rican law protects pre-Columbian artifacts (Ley 6703). Featured here as a story to honor, not a souvenir; status to be confirmed with the Museo Nacional.
Close view of the spiral petroglyph carved into rock on Lot 4
Spiral petroglyph · Lot 4
The differentiator

The boundary, on the real ground.

A survey-grade polygon rebuilt from the property’s derrotero and anchored to GPS corners we walked on the line — laid over satellite imagery and terrain. Listing-grade, not a legal survey; the plano catastrado remains the legal document.

Interactive map

The live boundary map loads once a Mapbox token is configured (NEXT_PUBLIC_MAPBOX_TOKEN). The survey-grade boundary for Indian Rock · Lot 4 is built and ready.

Boundary reconstructed from the validated derrotero (area closes within ~1 cm) and georeferenced to field-captured GPS anchors. For position reference only — confirm against the registered plano.

Terrain

The map above is pitched over real elevation data — you read the land the way it actually sits, ridge and fall, not a flat outline on a plat.

Elevation

Highland air around 700 m: cooler nights, cloud-forest light, and the long view down toward the Costa Ballena.

Coming — lot-level survey

Drone-flown slope, contour and water-flow mapping for this exact parcel is in preparation. Available on request as the highland sites become flyable.

Living land

What lives on this land.

Not a generic rainforest list — only what has actually been seen on this land: the forest it grows, and the birds and butterflies that live in it.

Photographed on the land

Not a stock library — every photograph below was taken on this land. These are the residents the owner has met on the property.

Three Fiery-billed Araçaris feeding together, photographed on the property.Fiery-billed Araçari
A Fiery-billed Araçari perched in the canopy, photographed on the property.Fiery-billed Araçari
A Fiery-billed Araçari at rest, its fiery bill clear, photographed on the property.Fiery-billed Araçari
A Fiery-billed Araçari in close profile, photographed on the property.Fiery-billed Araçari
A toucan working the forest edge, photographed on the property.Toucan
A red-headed woodpecker on a banana stalk, photographed on the property.Woodpecker
A golden-naped woodpecker on a trunk, photographed on the property.Woodpecker
A pair of parakeets feeding, photographed on the property.Parakeets
A longwing butterfly on a wildflower, photographed on the property.Butterfly
Buckeye butterflies on white blossoms, photographed on the property.Butterfly
A Montezuma Oropendola in flight, photographed on the property.Montezuma Oropendola
A Montezuma Oropendola at its hanging woven nest, photographed on the property.Montezuma Oropendola

Cedro forest

Cedrela odorata

A mature stand of Spanish cedar — the forest the lot is named around, and the reason the air stays cool.

Banana & plátano

Musa spp.

Established fruit already growing on the land — the first of a steward’s food forest.

Crested Guan

A large, wary canopy bird — its presence is a sign of healthy, undisturbed forest.

Fiery-billed Araçari

A small, brilliant toucan found only in this corner of Costa Rica and western Panama.

Toucan

Seen working the canopy and forest edge through the day.

White-crowned Parrot

A resident parrot of the highland forest, often heard before it is seen.

Montezuma Oropendola

Its hanging woven nests and liquid, bubbling call are unmistakable.

Gray-cowled Wood-Rail

A ground-dweller of the damp forest floor and stream edges.

Trogons

Trogon (genus)

Jewel-toned canopy birds — present and seen, not yet identified to species.

Parrots, parakeets & doves

Resident flocks moving through the canopy and clearings.

Tanagers

Bright mixed-feeding flocks working the forest edge.

Butterflies

A constant presence in the clearings and along the forest margins.

Registered concession

Water on Lot 4 is held under a registered concession — documented, not a verbal arrangement.

Tinamaste feria

10 min

The weekly farmers market — about ten minutes out on dirt roads — is the social and supply heart of these highlands.

Recorded on the land

46 bird species, and counting.

Recorded on this land by ear and eye across the seasons — owls after dark, antbirds in the understory, oropendolas overhead. The photographs above are the subset caught on camera; the full record runs longer.

Crested Guan

Penelope purpurascens

Large, slow-breeding, and hunted out of most accessible forest in Costa Rica — finding it here is a real indicator of intact habitat.

Gray-cowled Wood-Rail

Aramides cajaneus

A bird that wants water. Where it lives, water is close — quiet corroboration of what this land carries.

The full record — all 46 species
  • Western Cattle-Egret
  • Short-billed Pigeon
  • Blue Ground Dove
  • Collared Forest-Falcon
  • Merlin
  • Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
  • Mottled Owl
  • Black-and-white Owl
  • Short-tailed Nighthawk
  • Stripe-throated Hermit
  • Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
  • White-crowned Parrot
  • Slaty-tailed Trogon
  • Gartered Trogon
  • Lesson's Motmot
  • Tawny-winged Woodcreeper
  • Tawny-crowned Greenlet
  • Lesser Greenlet
  • House Sparrow
  • Blue-black Grosbeak
  • Blue-gray Tanager
  • Palm Tanager
  • Buff-throated Saltator
  • Streaked Saltator
  • Chestnut-headed Oropendola
  • Montezuma Oropendola
  • Scarlet-rumped Cacique
  • Melodious Blackbird
  • Cocoa Woodcreeper
  • Black-hooded Antshrike
  • Dusky Antbird
  • Chestnut-backed Antbird
  • Black-faced Antthrush
  • Yellow-olive Flatbill
  • Yellow-crowned Tyrannulet
  • Dusky-capped Flycatcher
  • Great Kiskadee
  • Gray-capped Flycatcher
  • Tropical Mockingbird
  • Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush
  • Swainson's Thrush
  • Clay-colored Thrush — yigüirro — the national bird of Costa Rica
  • Scaly-breasted Wren
  • Riverside Wren
  • Crested Guan — Penelope purpurascens
  • Gray-cowled Wood-Rail — Aramides cajaneus

Recorded means observed on the land — by sight or by call — not that each species was photographed here.

The land, in plain figures.

Area
3,982 m² · 0.98 ac
Elevation
700 m · cooler climate
To Dominical
25 min · Uvita 40 min
Water
Registered · concession
Forest
Cedro · mature cedar
Plano catastrado
2023-4613-C
Folio real
1-597897-000
Road frontage
28.1 m · calle pública
Views
Filtered ocean view · the Pacific glimpse, from the land
Boundary
Survey · interactive map

Note on the view — a filtered Pacific glimpse is possible and could be widened with selective clearing, subject to Ley Forestal and to neighbouring trees outside the seller’s control. Treated as potential, not guaranteed; to be confirmed with an on-site photo before any view is marketed as fact.

Location & access

Getting there.

Highland Pérez Zeledón, above the Costa Ballena — about twenty-five minutes up from Dominical.

  • RegionCosta Ballena highlands
  • LocalityLa Alfombra, Tinamaste
  • CantónPérez Zeledón, San José
  • To Dominical25 min
  • To Uvita40 min
  • FeriaTinamaste · 10 min
  • AirportSan José (SJO) ≈3 hr

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Private viewings and the full survey map on request.

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