Sea Ridge Reserve

Property overview

Sea Ridge Reserve is one of Costa Rica's founding ecological preserves — assembled nearly 25 years ago by visionary owners who recognized the natural wealth of the Costa Ballena coastline before most of the world had heard of it. Spanning nearly 400,000 m² (close to 1,000 acres) in Bahía Ballena, the property holds the highest coastal mountain knoll in Costa Rica, and possibly in all of Central America, at 2,400 feet — with 60-mile coastal views stretching in both directions from the summit. Priced at $12,000,000.

From this vantage point, the Whale's Tail reef formation is visible below, and three of Costa Rica's largest waterfalls — Diamante, San Luis, and Santa Lucía — fall within the sightline. To the east, sunrise illuminates Mount Chirripo, the tallest peak in the country, framed by the Talamanca mountain range extending north to south. The terrain moves through multiple climate zones in minutes, supporting one of the world's most biodiverse ecosystems and thousands of species of flora and fauna across the reserve's forest interior.

At the heart of the property stands a four-story, 50,000-square-foot main house with 7 bedrooms and 7 baths, built in 2004. The building scale and the land beneath it make this simultaneously a private legacy estate and an ecotourism or conservation development opportunity of the highest order. For buyers who understand the scarcity of intact old-growth coastal rainforest at this elevation, this close to the ocean, Sea Ridge Reserve has no peers anywhere in the region.

Listed by Jared Hanson, CENTURY 21 Tropical Breeze Realty. MLS# CR23429560.

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