In the beginning there was the Maritime Zone

The most attractive lands in a tropical country, with two Ocean as natural border at East and West, are, obviously the coasts.

From the beginning of the Human civilization the lands along rivers, lagoons and sea, have been the natural option for to establish small or big centres where men could live using the waters for the primary needs of food supply, water for all the use and like a transport route.

Probably is this ancestral tight connection between waterside land and health that, still today, is clicking inside our brains when we  stay in a nice land with a sandy smooth shore, maybe close to the estuary of a friendly river, or maybe is just our aesthetic sense.

The fact is that Oceanfront properties, are specially sought by people interested in a place where to build their Dream House, where spent their new life, or some month per year when the cold winter of the North push them to South, or just some weeks during the main holidays, and renting the house for the rest of the year.

People likes so much the beach that they would have its sand reaching the porch entry and the wawes splashing against the walls, but there are some rules to respect about the minimum distance where is possible to build along the beaches of Costa Rica.

The above section of a typical beach show the partition of a beachfront property with, for the first time, the right way to find the mythical point where the 50 metres public zone begin.

Is not complicated and anybody, with the help of a metre tape, tide table, a couple of wood poles and a little knowledge of topography, can easyly define where the public zone ends inside his “property”, with a little margin for mistake.