¢200 Million Invested
In The San Dimas de la Cruz Bridge
(InfoWeb Press) The residing executive
present of the Instituto de Desarrollo
Agrario (IDA, as abbreviated in Spanish),
Dr. Carlos Bolaños Céspedes, and the current
president of Costa Rica, Dr. Oscar Arias
Sánchez, attended the inauguration of the
San Dimas Bridge, located over the Sapoá
river in La Cruz, Guanacaste; a job in which
the IDA invested ¢200 million colones.
The construction of this bridge will benefit
over 34 families, that, from now on, may
take their agricultural produce out of the
region and send their children to school
without the risk of having to cross the
river by boat or overhang as they did
before.
Furthermore at the Municipal meeting of La
Cruz, held in the Experimental Bilingual
School gym, the executive president of the
IDA, symbolically gave the first twelve
parcels to twelve families, members of the
Asociación de Pequeños Agricultores de Los
Ángeles (APALA, as abbreviated in Spanish),
who will be allocated to a settlement called
Valle Real. The IDA purchased this land,
which measures 216.21 hectares, at a cost of
¢710 million colones. Now it will house 50
families, distributed in the following
fashion: 32 families in parcels and 38
families in lots.
The activities of production that these
families will be involved in include: sowing
of roots, tubers, citrus, pineapple, basic
grains, hot Pepper as well as livestock
activities and eco-tourism.
At the same event, the IDA gave a
certificate which designates the Asociación
Administradora de la Producción Agrícola y
Coordinación Institucional del Asentamiento
Orosi, as the administrators of CEPROMA (as
abbreviated in Spanish) namely the
Processing and Food Marketing Center,
located within Valle Real, and whose
construction was concluded during the month
of November 2009.
CEPROMA boasts an agroindustrial
infrastructure of 279 meters squared. Its
area of influence reaches neighboring
populations such as Orosi, Argendora and
Santa Elena, plus, other nearby communities
like La Virgen, El Caoba, Piedras Azules and
Brasilia.
Recently the IDA also gave works of
infrastructure, whose value exceeds the ¢100
million to the settlement of Orosi, an act
that will prompt the strengthening of the
social and economic development of 20
families.
The total area of this settlement is
superior to 106 hectares and it has 17 plots
of 5 hectares each and 23 lots for
dwellings.
The works given include internal roads,
which measure 5 kilometers and sewer
systems. The works were executed by means of
an agreement with the Municipality of Santa
Cruz. The material for construction was
donated by Mr. Martín Serrano and his wife,
both small-holders of the settlement of
Santa Cecilia. The investment was of ¢
51.217.000.
Other projects given were the enlargement of
the network, improvements to the pumping
system, guard station and storage tank for
the aqueduct.
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