finca

“But this was in the countryside, in a finca, in La Vega, Manguito. And ever since then I have dreamed a lot about flying.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2023

The finca is on our minds all the time.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 4, 2021

In the first chapter, Basch and Berry are staying at their Costa Rican finca, and Basch requires stitches from a Tica physician.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 25, 2019

Pilar, Hemingway's beloved fishing boat, thoroughly refurbished and spiffy, is permanently dry-docked on the finca tennis court, cutting an elegant but forlorn figure, its swashbuckling days of deep-sea trolling and hunting Nazi subs long gone.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2018

But in the time I’d lived in Macún I’d never seen an American, nor had I ever heard mention of a Rockefela, nor plans for a hotel in what everyone called Lalao’s finca.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

During his time in office, Arbenz emerged as the owner of a $3,000,000 cotton plantation; his Interior Minister turned into a gentleman-farmer with two coffee fincas; another pal acquired two mansions.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some of his 50-odd cattle ranches and 45 coffee fincas he got by "smart buying."

From Time Magazine Archive

However, a reasonable amount of capital in the beginning is necessary and many investors possessing the capital prefer to buy fincas or plantations that are already producing.

From Guatemala, the country of the future by Charles M. Pepper

The male indians of Tuxtla are, in large part, employed in contract labor on fincas at a distance from the town.

From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr

It is fortunate, indeed, that we stopped at Hidalgo, because Tumbala is now completely ruined by the contract-labor system, which has sent its men all through the country onto fincas.

From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr